Books Quote by Miguel Syjuco

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

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 remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

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

— Ernest L. Boyer

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

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that…

— Georges Bataille