Big problem Quote by John Hurt

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes…

— Jeanette Winterson

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are…

— Ken Liu

“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you…

— T.C. Boyle

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more…

— Irvine Welsh

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