Books Quote by Carlos Fuentes

“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

“Literature is a love that won’t let you down or show its true colors after some time goes by. You know what it’s about…

— Jason E. Hodges

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

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

— Annie Dillard

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini