Answers Quote by Junot Diaz

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

— Margaret Atwood

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they…

— Northrop Frye

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

— Sjon

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

— Glenn Ligon

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range…

— Kate Mosse

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

— Anonymous