Animal Quote by Carlos Fuentes

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

— Isabel Allende

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

— Jules Renard

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

— Brom

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer,…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

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

— Thomas McGuane

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

— Donald Barthelme

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

— Anthony Burgess