Academia Quote by John Williams

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

— E.M. Forster

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That”

— Paulo Coelho

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the…

— Ian McEwan

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles

“. In many points, both literary and moral, I could have wished devoutly that he had not written as he has done;”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.”

— Rivka Galchen