Books Quote by Lois Lowry

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think…

— Tea Obreht

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

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

Books are doors to another world.

— Anonymous

“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.”

— Romaine Gary

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

— George Saunders

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie