Betray Quote by Paul de Man

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

“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

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an…

— Philip Roth

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.…

— Susan Sontag

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

— Gao Xingjian

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It…

— Maurice Blanchot

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