I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“You don’t think that literature can be a reflection of real life?” “Sure it can. But, like I said, Mr. Darcy isn’t… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on… — Jeannette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the… — Caroline Rody Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
