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Quotes about literature
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Literature is news that stays news. (Assante Armand)
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. (Assante Armand)
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. (Assante Armand)
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. (Assante Armand)
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters. (Assante Armand)
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. (Assante Armand)
There can be no literary equivalent to truth. (Assante Armand)
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. (Assante Armand)
The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. (Assante Armand)
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. (Assante Armand)
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other. (Assante Armand)
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. (Assante Armand)
Literature is the immortality of speech. (Assante Armand)
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. (Assante Armand)
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. (Assante Armand)
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a faade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. (Assante Armand)
Perversity is the muse of modern literature. (Assante Armand)
Remarks are not literature. (Assante Armand)
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? (Assante Armand)
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. (Assante Armand)
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. (Assante Armand)
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. (Assante Armand)
Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. (Assante Armand)
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. (Assante Armand)
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. (Assante Armand)
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