Book Quote by Laurie Anderson

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 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 the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living,…

— M. John Harrison

“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

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd