Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the…

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood

“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow…

— Arthur Henry King

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

— David Foster Wallace

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and…

— Simon Kinberg

“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that…

— Kathy Fish

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…

— Brian Boyd

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a…

— Tom Glazer

We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty…

— Pope Leo X

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats