Amusement Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so…

— Miguel Syjuco

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but…

— David Shields

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you…

— T.C. Boyle

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

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

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

— Susan Howatch

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

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

— Kevin Wilson