Battlefields Quote by Gao Xingjian

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you…

— June Jordan

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which…

— Susan Sontag

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of…

— Italo Calvino

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

“The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about not a…

— Karl R. Popper

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer