Books Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will…

— Robert Dessaix

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet

“Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror…

— William J. Abraham

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books…

— Franklin Rosemont

“I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been…

— R. A. Torrey

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught…

— Gene Wolfe

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

— Salman Rushdie

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

“Unfinished works of great Authors are a triumph not a tragedy, it shows they gave us their all till the end”

— A.C. Quinn