Books 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 things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood

“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 exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface,…

— Italo Calvino

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

— Jonathan Lethem

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck