Human condition Quote by Zack Eswine

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

— Nelson Algren

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.

— Johann Albrecht Bengel

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

“It is intent which establishes one's consequential outcomes.”

— T.F. Hodge

“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more…

— Sue Hubbell

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from…

— Garth Greenwell

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by giving the…

— Dalai Lama XIV