Books Quote by Richard Flanagan

I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my…

— Richard Flanagan

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin…

— Richard Flanagan

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

“Was this the bright vastness the poet Bashō saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from…

— Alain de Botton

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

— Utada Hikaru

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used…

— Andrzej Wajda

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to…

— Laura Riding

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats