Books Quote by Nicole Krauss

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility…

— Javier A. Robayo

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book…

— Jim Rohn

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose…

— Anatole France

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot…

— Philip Larkin

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

— M.Lakshmi Durga