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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is…

— Katherine Anne Porter

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes:…

— Robert Ludlum

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a…

— Karen Marie Moning

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it…

— Philip Roth

“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared…

— Patrick O'Neill

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

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

— Helen Keller

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly…

— Jim Goad