Accepted Quote by Raymond Carver

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was…

— Mary MacLane

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

— Ashwin Sanghi

At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything…

— Anne Lamott

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

— Will Self

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world,…

— Stephen Sondheim

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

— Manuel Puig