Books Quote by Lev Grossman

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

When you're a writer, you talk about things that move you, that you feel really deep inside you that's something that moves you, and…

— David Cage

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and…

— Salman Rushdie

“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

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Willie van Peer

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

— Laura Marling

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the…

— Flea

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki