Books Quote by Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“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

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

“Literature; not litterature.”

— Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes