Author Quote by Colum McCann

“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

“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 has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“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

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Willie van Peer

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Donald Hall

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

— Lisa C. Taylor