Books Quote by Northrop Frye

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

— Romain Gary

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

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 don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Wright

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary…

— Jonathan Ames