Books Quote by Yu Hua

“So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the cooling night.”…

— Yu Hua

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with…

— Dana Gioia

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize -…

— Ralph Ellison

The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal…

— Clint Smith

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life…

— Nicole Krauss

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in,…

— Matthew Pearl

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