Books Quote by Corey Redekop

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

“Literature is what's left standing after the storm.”

— Mark Rude

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“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 is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”

— Patrick Hemingway

“Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.”

— Katie Douglas

“Real literature, great literature, moves people.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

“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

“I am a being compromised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Richard Wright

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese