...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”

― Lawrence Clark Powell

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“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”

― Kathy Acker

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“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.”

― Jorge Luis Borges

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“In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

― Junot Díaz

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“We read to under-stand our intu-ition of the world, to dis-cover that some-one a thou-sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti-mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col-lab-o-ra-tive act.”

― Alberto Manguel

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“Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”

― Lionel Trilling

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“If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.”

― María Kodama

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“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”

― Christian Bauman

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“Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.”

― George Henry Lewis

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“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

― Susan Sontag

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“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”

― Henry James

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"For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari.”

― Charles Harrington Elster

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“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.”

― Lenora Champagne

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“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.”

― Susan Sontag

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“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

― Cyril Connolly

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“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”

― Thomas McGuane