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Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

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.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Literature is the question minus the answer.