I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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.
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
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 has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.