Books Quote by 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

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

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

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

— Mario

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the…

— Xiaolu Guo

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

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

“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

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan