Arise Quote by Philip Roth

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so…

— Miguel Syjuco

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

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

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little…

— Alain de Botton

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that…

— Georges Bataille

“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging…

— Italo Calvino