Books Quote by Frances Mayes

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“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

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start the fire…

— Jarod Kintz

“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms that can…

— Italo Calvino

“There are shades of warmth from the sweet ember of possibility to the roaring fire that fills your soul.”

— Ann Aguirre

“Real literature, great literature, moves people.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the courage to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds…

— Paul Fleischman

“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where…

— Eca De Queiroz