Books Quote by E. M. Forster

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

— Anonymous

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

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche…

— Nick Antosca

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by…

— Storm Jameson

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

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

— Pat Conroy

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

— Glenway Wescott

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye