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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little…

— Alain de Botton

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 sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it…

— Joseph Brodsky

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, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a…

— Bill Buford

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— David Shields

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes…

— Ivan Klíma

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller