Books Quote by Edith Wharton

“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more…

— Sue Hubbell

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

— Bernard Berenson

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush