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There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens (Literature Quotes)
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation (Literature Quotes)
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol (Literature Quotes)
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics (Literature Quotes)
People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused (Literature Quotes)
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch (Literature Quotes)
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved (Literature Quotes)
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is (Literature Quotes)
The aim of literature... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart (Literature Quotes)
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified (Literature Quotes)
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them (Literature Quotes)
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth (Literature Quotes)
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature (Literature Quotes)
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths (Literature Quotes)
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature? (Literature Quotes)
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life (Literature Quotes)
Literature is the ditch I’m going to die in. It’s still the thing I care most about (Literature Quotes)
Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page (Literature Quotes)
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic (Literature Quotes)
... life every now and then becomes literature... as if life had been made and not happened (Literature Quotes)
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors (Literature Quotes)
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind... The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book (Literature Quotes)
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past (Literature Quotes)
An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy (Literature Quotes)
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life (Literature Quotes)
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being (Literature Quotes)
Isn’t connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? (Literature Quotes)
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature (Literature Quotes)
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness (Literature Quotes)
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement (Literature Quotes)