Behemoth Quote by David Mitchell

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I…

— Ian Mcewan

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

— Andre Gide

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills…

— Edmund White

Our literature is in great shape.

— James Welch

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

— Nellie L. McClung

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“if philosophy is mountain climbing then literature is an anti-gravity parade I love thee like a leper colony loves to make a trade”

— Carl-John X Veraja

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years…

— P. D. James

“Through the window I looked across the oil-black Tigris at the Green Zone, lit up like Disneyland in Dystopia. I thought about J.G. Ballard's…

— David Mitchell