Books Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…

— M. H. Abrams

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

— Thomas Carlyle

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky