Ability Quote by Susan Sontag

“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if we could…

— Susan Sontag

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not…

— Harold Bloom

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

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

“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