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“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage,"…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

— Milan Kundera

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't…

— Yann Martel

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

— Thomas Ligotti