Books Quote by Annie Dillard

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

“The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips…

— Robert McNeil

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead…

— Adam Kirsch

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the…

— Charles Colson

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…

— James Hynes

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a…

— Annie Dillard

“He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.”

— Colin Dexter

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick