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title: "41 Think Literature Quotes by 38 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Think Literature quotes by 38 authors. Discover the best Think Literature sayings and thoughts."
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> [I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-sue-park/i-do-think-that-part-of-literature-s-job-is-to-comment-on-and/)

[Linda Sue Park](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-sue-park/)

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> [We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mick-farren/we-think-literature-is-immortal-but-even-that-decays-and-ultimately/)

[Mick Farren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mick-farren/)

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> [I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-allende/i-don-t-think-of-literature-as-an-end-in-itself-it-s-just-a-way-of/)

[Isabel Allende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-allende/)

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> [“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinaldo-arenas/mine-is-not-an-obedient-writing-i-think-that-literature-as-any-art/)

[Reinaldo Arenas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinaldo-arenas/)

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> [“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meissner/i-think-literature-reveals-more-about-us-than-history-does/)

[Susan Meissner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meissner/)

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> [I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-warren-jones/i-think-literature-is-somehow-both-a-fantasy-and-a-reality-we-should/)

[Shane Warren Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-warren-jones/)

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> [I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-think-literature-is-best-when-it-s-voicing-what-we-would-prefer-not/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

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> [I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-longley/i-think-that-literature-quite-often-emerges-from-areas-where-there/)

[Edna Longley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-longley/)

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> [You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/errol-morris/you-re-meant-to-think-somehow-that-literature-in-espousing-eternal/)

[Errol Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/errol-morris/)

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> [It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leni-zumas/it-just-fascinates-me-those-private-mechanisms-that-we-use-to-make/)

[Leni Zumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leni-zumas/)

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> [I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/i-think-that-literature-has-the-important-effect-of-creating-free/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [“You don’t think that literature can be a reflection of real life?” “Sure it can. But, like I said, Mr. Darcy isn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-boyd/you-don-t-think-that-literature-can-be-a-reflection-of-real-life-sure/)

[Christina Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-boyd/)

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> [Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/women-s-books-are-kind-of-discriminated-against-if-a-man-writes-a/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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> [I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/i-think-that-literature-is-something-that-embraces-a-much-larger/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connie-willis/i-think-literature-totally-fails-when-it-has-an-agenda-from-an/)

[Connie Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connie-willis/)

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> [“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bennett/i-think-of-literature-she-wrote-as-a-vast-country-to-the-far-borders/)

[Alan Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bennett/)

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> [The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/the-writer-s-job-is-to-write-with-rigor-with-commitment-to-defend/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [“While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/while-it-s-true-that-as-tolstoy-observed-every-unhappy-family-is/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

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> [The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-way-to-rock-oneself-back-into-writing-is-this-first-gentle/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/sartre-said-that-wars-were-acts-and-that-with-literature-you-could/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-mcinerney/the-20th-century-saw-far-greater-catastrophes-than-september-11th-as/)

[Jay McInerney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-mcinerney/)

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> [It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-salter/it-seems-to-me-that-literature-is-giving-way-a-little-bit-to-the/)

[James Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-salter/)

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> [Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/some-writers-like-to-boil-down-headlines-of-liberal-newspapers-into/)

[Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/)

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> [At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soledad-o-brien/at-harvard-i-was-taking-an-african-american-studies-class-and-we-were/)

[Soledad O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soledad-o-brien/)

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> [“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeannette-winterson/i-think-people-are-often-quite-unaware-of-their-inner-selves-their/)

[Jeannette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeannette-winterson/)

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> [“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-olen-butler/the-special-problem-here-is-that-the-artistic-medium-of-fiction/)

[Robert Olen Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-olen-butler/)

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> [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-wylie/i-don-t-think-if-you-re-serious-about-literature-your-library-is/)

[Andrew Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-wylie/)

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> [I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-think-literature-has-lost-it-s-power-great-novels-continue-to-be/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-jenkins/film-is-not-an-amazing-medium-to-relay-interiority-i-think-literature/)

[Barry Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-jenkins/)

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> [“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-rody/from-that-time-forward-it-has-been-hard-for-me-not-to-think-of/)

[Caroline Rody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-rody/)

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> [I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/per-petterson/i-do-not-think-of-literature-as-something-confessional-or-therapeutic/)

[Per Petterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/per-petterson/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mac-barnett/i-m-not-sure-we-re-presenting-ourselves-as-real-role-models-i-don-t/)

[Mac Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mac-barnett/)

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> [I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-think-literature-can-make-familiar-the-unfamiliar-and-the/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

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> [Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/really-when-i-think-it-over-literature-has-only-one-excuse-for/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

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> [Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/some-people-think-literature-is-high-culture-and-that-it-should-only/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pankaj-mishra/i-think-that-indian-writing-in-english-is-a-really-peculiar-beast-i/)

[Pankaj Mishra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pankaj-mishra/)

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> [I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/i-don-t-think-literature-would-be-possible-in-a-determined-world-we/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/in-fact-i-don-t-think-of-literature-or-music-or-any-art-form-as/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

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> [I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-antosca/i-don-t-really-think-in-terms-of-the-future-of-literature-i-think/)

[Nick Antosca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-antosca/)

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                        "text": "I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.",
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                        "text": "Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.",
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                        "text": "I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.",
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                        "text": "I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.",
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                        "text": "In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.",
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                        "text": "I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around \"forever\" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.",
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