Books Quote by Kenneth Patchen

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

— Cyril Connolly

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And…

— Barbara Christian

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living,…

— M. John Harrison

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes…

— Michel Foucault

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human.…

— Nicole Krauss

“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder if it…

— Kyung-Sook Shin