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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.