Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
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.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Literature is news that stays news.
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 overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.