Books Quote by William Stafford

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 has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood