Art Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new…

— Robertson Davies

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is…

— Christopher Hampton

Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there's a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don't necessarily share yours,…

— David Brin

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one…

— Bertrand Russell

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

“This interest in reflections, fictions, dreams, thoughts, images, is the basic reason why man cannot know himself. He is not interested at all in…

— Osho

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics,…

— Wole Soyinka

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

— Elif Safak

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He…

— John W. Gardner

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository…

— Carol Shields