Books Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because…

— Dave Eggers

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

— Terence McKenna

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche…

— Nick Antosca

It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will…

— James Salter

“You don’t think that literature can be a reflection of real life?” “Sure it can. But, like I said, Mr. Darcy isn’t a reflection…

— Christina Boyd

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo