Books Quote by Orhan Pamuk

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

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

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in…

— Muriel Spark

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry…

— Orson Scott Card

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir