Books Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

— William Stafford

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

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

— E. V. Lucas

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

— Lionel Trilling

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 most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver