Art Quote by James Joyce

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

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

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism or individualism…

— Terry Eagleton

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

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

— Lisa C. Taylor

“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