Books Quote by Lionel Shriver

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

“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

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

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

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like…

— Kate Zambreno

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

— Julian Barnes

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it…

— John Green

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a…

— Anonymous

“We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own…

— Dorothy Day

“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation of “withheld…

— Sianne Ngai