Books Quote by E. V. Lucas

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature today sounds…

— The editors n+1

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges