Actively Quote by Eleanor Catton

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they…

— Aldous Huxley

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the…

— Leni Zumas

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

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a…

— F. R. Leavis

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the…

— B. J. Novak

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an…

— Rebecca West

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by…

— Tino Sehgal

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

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to…

— Rita Dove