Affair Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— William Stafford

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

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

— Ernest L. Boyer

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this…

— C. S. Lewis

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

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

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox