Books Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

— Francois Duvalier

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind…

— Gao Xingjian

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

Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by…

— Gao Xingjian

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

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

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you…

— June Jordan

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary…

— Emma Goldman