Believe Quote by Herta Muller

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual…

— Steven Knight

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by…

— Geoff Ryman

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have…

— Rebecca West

“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could produce one…

— Nick Hornby

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

That complete statement which is literature.

— Virginia Woolf

For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.

— Justin Cartwright

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

— Anonymous