Books Quote by Delmore Schwartz

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

— David Shields

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

— William Ralph Inge

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so…

— Miguel Syjuco

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on…

— Terry Pratchett

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

— Romain Gary