Literature Quotes

"We read to know we are not alone." "There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby." "It takes a long time to write anything that’s worth reading" "I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible." "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Man is the storytelling animal." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry " "To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you." "The good of a book lies in its being read." "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me." "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out "