Books Quote by Gao Xingjian

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

— Tracy K. Smith

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and…

— Salman Rushdie

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

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 an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

— Helen Dunmore