Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
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 the stringing together of pictures in words.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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.
Literature is news that stays news.
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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