Analysis Quote by Rebecca West

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

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

— William Stafford

Literature is analysis after the event.

— Doris Lessing

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

— Northrop Frye

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 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 could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Ernest L. Boyer