Books Quote by Northrop Frye

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

— Jonathan Ames

A man who is ignorant of books is one with whom no discussion is possible.

— Vikrant Parsai

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

— Mo Yan

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems…

— Colum McCann

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

— Jane Smiley

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

— Walter Benjamin

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

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

“In general, [. . .] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when they have…

— Gore Vidal

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

— Jacqueline Susann

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford