Books Quote by Mark Slouka

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

— Richard Wright

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

“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

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

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

— Donald Hall

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 is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“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

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

“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 isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush