Books Quote by Connie Willis

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

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

— Susanne Christensen

“Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.”

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Richard Wright

“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s…

— Tom McCarthy

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the…

— Julius Lester

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

— Terry Eagleton