Books Quote by Marek Hlasko

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be…

— Andrzej Wajda

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort…

— Eavan Boland

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

— Fay Godwin

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

— Laurence Housman