Bars Quote by T.C. Boyle

The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played,…

— Rheta Grimsley Johnson

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

— Porochista Khakpour

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the…

— David Shields

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

— Maya Angelou

“Yes, I have seen a great many things in this world. I attend the greatest disasters and work for the greatest villains. But then…

— Markus Zusak

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.

— Khalid

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the…

— John Cheever

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the…

— Rachel Carson