Books Quote by Maria Konnikova

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous

I'm very objective about what I want to have happen to my protagonists and where that has to come from. On one hand, it…

— Rita Williams-Garcia

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a…

— Bill Buford

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

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

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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

— Julio Cortazar

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome