Ancient Quote by Mo Yan

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek…

— Gao Xingjian

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature…

— Joseph Brodsky

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the…

— Toni Morrison

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

— Bernard Bailyn

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

— Mario Vargas Llosa