Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“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 is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

— Valerie Miner

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 speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

“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 always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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