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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories  (Literature Quotes) He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to  (Literature Quotes) Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind  (Literature Quotes) In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue  (Literature Quotes) The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end  (Literature Quotes) Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop  (Literature Quotes) Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about  (Literature Quotes) I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature  (Literature Quotes) Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function  (Literature Quotes) In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem  (Literature Quotes) There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them  (Literature Quotes) Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world  (Literature Quotes) We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege  (Literature Quotes) Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours  (Literature Quotes) Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man  (Literature Quotes) The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first  (Literature Quotes) Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child  (Literature Quotes) Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art  (Literature Quotes) The literature has become too vast to comprehend... It is... difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields... There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data... gossip  (Literature Quotes) Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality  (Literature Quotes) Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth  (Literature Quotes) To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity  (Literature Quotes) One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour  (Literature Quotes) We seem to live a culture that doesn’t want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written  (Literature Quotes) Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places  (Literature Quotes) Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing  (Literature Quotes) I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition  (Literature Quotes) So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It’s almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional  (Literature Quotes) To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another’s life  (Literature Quotes) How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him  (Literature Quotes)
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