Asymmetry Quote by Pankaj Mishra

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

— Ralph Peters

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we…

— Alison Lurie

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

— Mark Van Doren

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

— Ma Jian

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of…

— Yu Hua

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance…

— Mo Yan

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as…

— Os Guinness

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary…

— Jonathan Ames

Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in…

— Robert Hass

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke