Books Quote by Marcel Theroux

“Codes and patterns are very different from each other,” Langdon said. “And a lot of people confuse the two. In my field, it’s crucial…

— Dan Brown

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard