Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Literature has become my life.
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.