Books Quote by Robert Stone

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,”

— Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood

“A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand…

— Benjamin Moser

“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow…

— Arthur Henry King

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

— David Foster Wallace

“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that…

— Kathy Fish

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible…

— Olga Tokarczuk

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

— Nicole Krauss

“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort of picture.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky