Books Quote by Northrop Frye

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with…

— Leland Ryken

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan