Books Quote by Edwidge Danticat

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

— Phyllis Rose

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

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

— Robert Dessaix

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from…

— Northrop Frye

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

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

— Ernest L. Boyer

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare…

— Gwee Li Sui