Book Quote by Richard Ford

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies…

— Alejandro Zambra

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

— Anne Fadiman

I want my books to exist in the literary world, not only in the art world. I am interested in having a dialogue with…

— Jill Magid

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous