Books Quote by Jason E. Hodges

“I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Love is a book and a light to read it by.”

— Peter Hubbard

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us.…

— Eileen Myles

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

— Laura Marling

“Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in…

— Julie Harvey Delcourt

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing…

— Shannon Hale

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman