Able Quote by Nicole Krauss

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

— Salvador de Madariaga

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

— Phyllis Rose

That complete statement which is literature.

— Virginia Woolf

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

— Herta Muller

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

— Patrick O'Brian

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

— Sjon

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye