“Literature is news that stays news.”— Ezra Pound Related Quotes “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”— Boris Pasternak “Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.”— Victor Nell “she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.”— Alan Hollinghurst