Always Quote by Robert Darnton

I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're…

— Mary Zimmerman

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

Every text assumes a reader.

— Alberto Manguel

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

— Elie Wiesel

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the…

— Jacques Derrida

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

— John Piper

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept…

— Will Self

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

— Francine Prose

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk