Bits Quote by Alain de Botton

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.…

— Mo Yan

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…

— M. H. Abrams

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it…

— Philip Roth

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe