Books Quote by John Julius Norwich

“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

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

— Timothy Findley

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos of stories…

— Elif Shafak

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant