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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
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.
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.
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.