Books Quote by Anthony Burgess

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so…

— Miguel Syjuco

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

— Anonymous

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Thomas McGuane

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans