Books Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way…

— Suhayl Saadi

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is…

— Anonymous

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus…

— David Shields

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick up in…

— Ann Patchett