Books Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

— Robert Bly

When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what…

— Naoto Fukasawa

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in school combined.”

— Sneha Mehta

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

“After many years of his melancholy he realized that love as understood by most of the people in the world, is mostly love of…

— Raj Doctor

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

— Utada Hikaru

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them,…

— Robert Graves