If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable…

I never find it exciting to go anywhere, you get much more true information from literature than from travelling.

— Richey Edwards

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information…

— Chuck Klosterman

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

— Larry Wall

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

— Anonymous

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

— Stewart Brand

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free…

— Bill Gates

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And…

— Barbara Christian

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's…

— Ilan Stavans

“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

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser