Books Quote by Margaret Mazzantini

“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

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

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

— Willie van Peer

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

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

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass