Books Quote by Yann Martel

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.”

— Kelly Luce

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it…

— Joseph Brodsky

“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin