Artificial Quote by David Daiches

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us…

— Russell Kirk

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…

— M. H. Abrams

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

— John Henry Newman