Alternatives Quote by Walter Brueggemann

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the…

— Rachel Cusk

“At their most basic level, great fictional stories are about transformation - usually a change from one perspective to another. The change may be…

— Rob Parnell

Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original…

— Alberto Manguel

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

“Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the…

— Suzy Kassem

“What does it take to change a person’s essence? Is this even conceivable?” Says Maddox in that ever so temperate voice we have all…

— Peyton J. Dracco

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,…

— James Baldwin

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at…

— George Saunders

“Real transformation happens when people take responsibility for their own lives and begin to live intentionally in every area. When they begin recovering their…

— Michael Hyatt

“Transformation begins with tearing down the old, stretching beyond the existing, and undergoing deformity to give life to an astounding form.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation,…

— Douglas Crimp