Books Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to…

— Jonathan Franzen

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

— William Golding

“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

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

— Laura Miller

“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

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...”

— John Julius Norwich

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you…

— T.C. Boyle

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes