Literature Quote by Virginia Woolf

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

— William S. Burroughs

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…

— Lytton Strachey

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

— Gary Oldman

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly…

— T. S. Eliot

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.…

— John Steinbeck

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder if it…

— Kyung-Sook Shin