Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day, but I…

— Francis Spufford

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“In a word, literature is my utopia.”

— Helen Keller

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman