Books Quote by Donald Barthelme

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a…

— Donald Barthelme

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

— Donald Barthelme

“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and…

— Michael Ende

“FURIES: Over the beast doomed to the fire this is the chant, scatter of wits, frenzy and fear, hurting the heart, song of the…

— Richard Lattimore Aeschylus

“Reluctantly Bastian's thoughts turned back to reality. He was glad the Neverending Story had nothing to do with that. He didn't like books in…

— Michael Ende

“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of…

— Michael Ende

“All literature is scarry.”

— Helene Cixous

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“As he piled wood on the fire he discovered an appreciation of his own body which he had never felt before...It fascinated him, and…

— Jack London

“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed…

— Jessica Park

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts