Books Quote by Iris Murdoch

Literature is achieved anxiety.

— Harold Bloom

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

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

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

— T. E. Lawrence

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

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 union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann