Books Quote by Harvey Pekar

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

— Thomas Hood

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of…

— Marisa Silver

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

— Stephen Daldry

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

— George Henry Lewes

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison