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Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Tracy K. Smith

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

— Mark Slouka

“…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

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare…

— Gwee Li Sui

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber