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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

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 helps us transcend ourselves.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Literature has become my life.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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.