Assumption Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained…

— Leland Ryken

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet…

— Sven Birkerts

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific…

— Italo Calvino

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

— Matisyahu

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

— Ellen Glasgow