Apocalypse Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“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

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

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

— Tracy K. Smith

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

— Carol Bly

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

“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

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer