Books Quote by James Lee Burke

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the Journey.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the…

— Jules Verne

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation…

— Pericles

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved…

— Anne Carson

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

— Umberto Eco

“Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will still be…

— Italo Calvino

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

— Giacomo Leopardi

“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever…

— Jane Langton