Books Quote by E.E. Cummings

“to hell with literature we want something redblooded”

— E.E. Cummings

“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them…

— G.K. Chesterton

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has…

— Henry Seidel Canby

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A strong and bitter booksickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment.…

— Solomon Eagle

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to…

— Frank Bidart