Books Quote by Arthur Miller

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway…

— Walter Mosley

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

— Neil Cross

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and…

— Nicola Griffith

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

— Georges Bataille

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar