Books Quote by Jan Neruda

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my…

— Miguel Syjuco

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare…

— Gwee Li Sui

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino