Books Quote by Rivka Galchen

“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.”

— Roberto Bolaño

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

— Michael Robotham

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even though it…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Alaa Alghamdi

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually…

— Tom Shippey

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen