Believe Quote by Louis Menand

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well,…

— Vissarion Belinsky

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

— Danny Glover

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive…

— Christian Lous Lange

“Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they…

— Erica Jong

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer