Books Quote by Don DeLillo

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

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

— David Shields

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my…

— Miguel Syjuco

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about…

— Martin Amis

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario