Books Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“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

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— William Stafford

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 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

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell