Books Quote by Sven Birkerts

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be…

— Christopher Dawson

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

— Anonymous

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

— Anatole Broyard

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

— Philip Pullman

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.”

— Romaine Gary

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa