Absolutes Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which…

— Vivian Gornick

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any…

— Wole Soyinka

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an…

— Philip Roth

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who I am,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned…

— Milorad Pavić

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome of this…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate…

— Karl Jaspers

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre