Allowing Quote by Phyllis Rose

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

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 beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives…

— Northrop Frye

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell