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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

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“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

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so…

— Miguel Syjuco

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa