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. I prefer to talk about the…

— Amos Oz

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Amos Oz

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

— Robert Metcalfe

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

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

— Stephen Daldry

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

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities - for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting…

— Geoffrey Rush

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

— George Henry Lewes

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante