Books Quote by Andrzej Wajda

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

— Marek Hlasko

Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods…

— Simin Behbahani

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“The extermination of Poland's literary heritage was frighteningly efficient. Researchers have estimated that 70 percent of all books in Poland were destroyed or lost…

— Anders Rydell

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

— George Henry Lewes

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over…

— Lech Walesa

“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a…

— Ayad Akhtar

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous