Books Quote by E.M. Forster

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...”

— John Julius Norwich

“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles