Aim Quote by Donald Barthelme

“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

— Donald Barthelme

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

— Ernest L. Boyer

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 union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a…

— Donald Barthelme

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

— Robert Dessaix

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

— Thomas Carlyle