Community Quote by Adam Weishaupt

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature…

— James Joyce

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

— David Cooperrider

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

A literary achievement of the highest order.

— David Guterson

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall