Book Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

— Northrop Frye

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

— John W. Campbell

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

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

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg