Books Quote by Mala Naidoo

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Willie van Peer

“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

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

“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