Books Quote by Camron Wright

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

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”

— Joseph Heller

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.”

— David McDonald

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa