Books Quote by Tillie Olsen

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

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

— James Joyce

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

— Franz Kafka

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

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

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

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

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz