Books Quote by Laura Riding

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in…

— Edward Everett

There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And…

— Ryan North

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove

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 the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

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

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson