Books Quote by Nellie L. McClung

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is…

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

— Virginia Woolf

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our literature is in great shape.

— James Welch

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her…

— Annie Dillard

“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon…

— Virginia Woolf

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 think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills…

— Edmund White

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

“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

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga