Books Quote by Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…

— Wole Soyinka

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

— Amiri Baraka

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they…

— Northrop Frye

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…

— James Hynes

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

A lot of our social ills are directly related to poverty, not that people of higher status don't have problems, but they have resources.

— Ashley Biden

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

— Sean Stephenson

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering,…

— William Graham Sumner

“Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s…

— Andy Stanley