Quotes 81 till 100 of 196.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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