Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
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