Books Quote by Richard Bausch

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

“The only thing worth writing about is people. People . Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight…

— Harlan Ellison

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

“Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose in life…

— Susan Waterfield

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.”

— T. MacLaughlin

“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We…

— Matt Haig

“The one thing I hope people take away from my books is that the world is not nearly as bad as it seems on…

— Michael Shusko

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

— Willie van Peer

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila