Books Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature is the memory of humanity.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— William Stafford

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

— Georges Bataille

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

— Tracy K. Smith