Book Quote by Amos Oz

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a…

— Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five…

— Amos Oz

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes…

— Michel Foucault

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

— Anne Fadiman

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's…

— Amos Oz

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry