Accustomed Quote by James Joyce

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

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

— William Stafford

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my…

— Katherine Paterson

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you…

— Alan Bennett

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to…

— Maya Angelou

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

— Georges Bataille