Books Quotes · Page 54

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came…

— Max Lucado

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the…

— Michael Moore

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

— Wendell Phillips

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing…

— Gloria Goldreich

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

— Judy Blume

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly…

— Lydia Davis

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never…

— Francois Rabelais

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being…

— Martin Amis

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have…

— Henry Rollins

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma

My books are friends that never fail me.

— Thomas Carlyle

“What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and…

— Elisabeth Egan

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are…

— Henry James

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't…

— Helen Fielding

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed…

— Azar Nafisi

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much…

— Deborah Ellis

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy…

— Nicholson Baker

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…

— Michael Morpurgo

I didn't want to play in the reserves. It was the wrong attitude. I could have trained for myself, so when I…

— Patrick van Aanholt

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at…

— Bonnie Raitt