Books Quote by Andre Breton

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

— Cormac McCarthy

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

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

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux