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“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily…

— John Dewey

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

— T. E. Lawrence

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 has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a…

— Bill Buford

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

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

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the…

— John Cheever

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok