Books Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

— Anonymous

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints…

— Hozier

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods…

— Simin Behbahani

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of…

— Yu Hua

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in…

— Khaled Hosseini

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you…

— Thom Gunn

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag