Books Quote by Keith Botsford

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself -…

— Michael Dirda

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

— Anatole Broyard

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

“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

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 greatest writers have persistence.”

— Gina Nahai

“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

— Colum McCann