Robert Louis Stevenson Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took…

— Virginia Woolf

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…

— Emily Dickinson

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a…

— Ayad Akhtar

“I loved the physicality of books just as much as the stories inside, the feel of pages between my fingers, the intricacies of classic…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of…

— Henry James

“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream…

— Barbara Pym

“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the…

— Eudora Welty