Books Quote by Lynn Coady

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

— Will Self

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing…

— George Eliot

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

— Ayad Akhtar

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

— Linda Sue Park

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing.…

— Ayad Akhtar

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn