Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in…

I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural literature -…

— Matt de la Pena

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At…

— John Steinbeck

“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand…

— Benjamin Moser

“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being…

— Anna Quindlen

“God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had…

— Kody Keplinger

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian…

— Amish Tripathi

“Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers ― from the first to the last, including the most fleeting…

— Dai Sijie

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to…

— Helen Mirren

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

— Jonathan Ames

“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees of pain.…

— Jacob Wren