Directly Quote by Jonathan Ames

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s.…

— Robert Hass

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to…

— Walter Mosley

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From…

— Jeff VanderMeer

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I…

— Ian Mcewan

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are…

— Jennifer Egan

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor