Books Quote by Karan Mahajan

We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they…

— Karan Mahajan

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

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

Literature has become too psychological.

— Karan Mahajan

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

“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know…

— Pierre Bayard

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it…

— Joseph Brodsky

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language…

— Octavio Paz

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer