Anymore Quote by Miguel Syjuco

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

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

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,…

— James Baldwin

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the…

— Anonymous

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

— Philip Roth

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

— Denis Donoghue

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change -…

— J. G. Ballard