I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
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 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.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
I've always said that music is like literature.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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.