Argument Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.

— Peter Handke

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

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

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia…

— David Mamet

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by…

— Elizabeth George

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian