Books Quote by Louis Menand

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

— Doris Lessing

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative…

— Gayl Jones

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

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

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

— John W. Campbell

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to…

— Henry Giroux