Books Quote by Julian Barnes

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

— Jesse Ball

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two…

— Ali Banisadr

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress…

— Terry Brooks

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

— Mitch Albom

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end…

— Achy Obejas