Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators…

— David Mamet

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”

— Margaret Atwood

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is…

— Marilyn Butler

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination,…

— Franz Rottensteiner

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central…

— David Nicholls

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers…

— John Metcalf

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can…

— Tavi Gevinson

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

— Walter Benjamin

“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's…

— Milan Kundera