Books Quote by Jonathan Miller

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

— Julio Cortazar

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's…

— Amos Oz

“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.”

— Hillel F. Damron

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the…

— Steven Brust

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo