Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

“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

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

— Lev Grossman

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which…

— John Lancaster Spalding

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for…

— C.S. Lewis

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

— Gao Xingjian