Books Quote by Michael Savage

“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

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit was my…

— Christian S. Simpson

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways…

— M.R. Carey

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.”

— M.T Anderson

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell…

— Connie Willis

“Books and reading were my escape. A way to leave this world”

— Jani Kay

“…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

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud