About Quote by Jonathan Kozol

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

— Lisa C. Taylor

“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have…

— Lee Gutkind

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and…

— Dave Eggers

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the…

— Flea

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and…

— Matthew Desmond

“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

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes