Books Quote by Thomas Keneally

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

— Robert Fulghum

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

— David Foster Wallace

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

“Literature in the West arose from liturgy.”

— Peter Leithart

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

— Anonymous

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of…

— Luka Magnotta

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for…

— John Steinbeck

My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was…

— Florence Welch

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

— Tom Wolfe

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music…

— Amos Oz

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland