Losing Quote by Ayad Akhtar

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

— Ellen Glasgow

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

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

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range…

— Kate Mosse

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

“Writing hasn’t changed a thing; when the writer puts down the pen, no matter how lucid or brutally honest his insights may have been,…

— Maggie Nelson

“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

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

— Linda Sue Park

Literature has become too psychological.

— Karan Mahajan