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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

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

— Manuel Puig

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

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

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they…

— Northrop Frye

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Anonymous

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

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

— Tracy K. Smith