Books Quote by Julio Cortazar

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's…

— Jonathan Miller

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems…

— Colum McCann

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

— Boris Pasternak

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

— Arthur Miller

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

— Carol Bly

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

— Joseph Campbell