Books Quote by Chloe Thurlow

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.”

— Rivka Galchen

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

Literature is an art of word; philosophy is an art of thought.

— Ilkin Santak

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no…

— Jens Porup

“Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”

— Patrick Hemingway

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

— Sjon

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they…

— Northrop Frye

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is…

— Roland Barthes

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn