Books Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library. I could…

— Christine Aziz

“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the…

— Jules Verne

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection…

— Brad Pitt

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through…

— Oliver Stone

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved…

— Anne Carson

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers…

— G. K. Chesterton

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a…

— George Saintsbury

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley