Books Quote by Susan Meissner

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

— Terence McKenna

It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will…

— James Salter

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche…

— Nick Antosca

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa