Books Quote by Phyllis Rose

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

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

“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for…

— Doris Lessing

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola

“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

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“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