Begets Quote by Susan Sontag

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

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Lionel Trilling

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

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

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin