Activity Quote by David Shields

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

— Eleanor Catton

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love.…

— Vivian Gornick

“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you…

— Brent weeks

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human.…

— Nicole Krauss

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's…

— Joseph Brodsky

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the…

— William Faulkner

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable…

— Rick Riordan