Books Quote by Julius Lester

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

— Mason Cooley

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the…

— Lionel Suggs

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is…

— Christopher Hampton

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.”

— Romaine Gary

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra