Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
Eleanor Catton
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th... →
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Camilo Jose Cela
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the... →
John Cheever
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not... →
Beverly Cleary
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists... →
Paulo Coelho