Analysis Quote by Doris Lessing

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

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

— William Stafford

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature is news that stays news.

— Ezra Pound

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

— Northrop Frye

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

— George Henry Lewes

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

— Salvador de Madariaga

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende