Books Quote by Vladimir Lenin

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and…

— John Steinbeck

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

— Jan Neruda

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

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“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 not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a favourable climate…

— Murong Xuecun

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide