Books Quote by Vivian Gornick

“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what…

— Salman Rushdie

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question…

— George Gissing

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

— William H. Macy

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

— Bernard Malamud

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the…

— Martin Buber

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue -…

— Philip Kitcher

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

— Anonymous

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

— Rita Mae Brown

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness…

— Ben Okri

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

— Lynne Tillman

“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.”

— Mikhail Iossel

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

— Delmore Schwartz

“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or…

— Thomas C. Foster