Aspect Quote by Azar Nafisi

“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature,…

— Azar Nafisi

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama,…

— Nicholas Sparks

Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at…

— Amos Oz

“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”

— Georges Bataille

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

— Julia Alvarez

“Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

— Jose Marti