Books Quote by Amos Oz

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

— Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

— Amos Oz

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I…

— Per Petterson

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

— Linda Sue Park

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe