Care Quote by Philip Pullman

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

— Sven Birkerts

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

— Ezra Pound

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk…

— Kathy Acker

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture…

— Louis Menand

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

— Peter Hitchens

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation…

— James Thurber

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light…

— Charley Reese