Books Quote by Matthew Specktor

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

— Robert Dessaix

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 for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…

— M. H. Abrams

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

— Nicholas Kristof