Books Quote by Christian Bauman

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Literature has become too psychological.

— Karan Mahajan

The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply,…

— Kingsley Amis

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at…

— Meg Wolitzer

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

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

— Thomas McGuane

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

— Nick Hornby

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko