Books Quote by Roland Barthes

“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

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and dehydrating!”

— Baret Magarian

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“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 wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“Literature is a love that won’t let you down or show its true colors after some time goes by. You know what it’s about…

— Jason E. Hodges

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“There's truly an art regarding literature in every way...”

— VandBrooks

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

“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