Books Quote by Kathy Acker

“Literature is disputed territory.”

— Salman Rushdie

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy

“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary…

— Gilles Deleuze

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Anonymous

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead…

— Adam Kirsch

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.…

— Susan Sontag

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

— Sally Rooney

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende