Book Quote by Matthew Pearl

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with…

— Leland Ryken

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to…

— Joe Meno

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats