Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature has become my life.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
I have a huge passion for literature.
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
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.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.
From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
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