Books Quote by Raymond Chandler

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster

“That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

— Daphne Kalotay

“nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”

— Lynne Truss

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”

— Paul Leicester Ford

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

— Daphne Kalotay

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change…

— William Carlos Williams

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson