Best way Quote by Jose Marti

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time,…

— James Ellis

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan

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 incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained…

— Leland Ryken

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

— Robert S. Jepson, Jr

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson