Books Quote by Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very…

— Amos Oz

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

— Northrop Frye

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

“The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.”

— Blaise Cendrars

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person…

— Carol Windley

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

— Amos Oz

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of…

— James Wolcott

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch