Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature has become my life.
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.