Can do Quote by Stephen Shore

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

— Michael Heizer

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of…

— William Faulkner

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself…

— Gregory Allen Howard

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

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