Books Quote by Northrop Frye

“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of me, and…

— Northrop Frye

“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very…

— Roland Barthes

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

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

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann