Book Quote by Edmund White

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“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 exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after…

— Salman Rushdie

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

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, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle