Books Quote by Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

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

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,…

— James Baldwin

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath

“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

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood