Book Quote by Valerie Miner

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this…

— Raymond Chandler

“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature…

— Joseph Brodsky

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith