Books Quote by Jonathan Ames

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

— Carol Bly

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

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