Books Quote by Ellen Ullman

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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 safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

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 think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being,…

— Siri Hustvedt

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

— Aleksandar Hemon