There's truly an art regarding literature in every way...

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

— Margaret Fuller

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

— Michael Ruhlman

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

— Albrecht Dürer

I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly…

— Jeff Hardy

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

— Judy Gold

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow…

— Arthur Henry King

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's…

— Ilan Stavans

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And…

— Barbara Christian

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser