Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Literature
-
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
→ -
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
→ -
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.
→ -
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.
→ -
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
→
Related Authors
-
Tracy Chevalier Novelist -
Betty Smith Author -
Khaled Hosseini Novelist -
Toni Morrison Novelist -
Margaret Atwood Poet -
Jodi Picoult Author -
John Irving Novelist -
Sue Monk Kidd Writer -
Ann Patchett Author -
James McBride Writer -
Maya Angelou Author -
Stephen King Author -
Wendell Berry Novelist -
Jeannette Walls Writer -
Michael Pollan Author -
Ray Bradbury Writer -
Jhumpa Lahiri Author -
Wally Lamb Author -
Zora Neale Hurston Anthropologist -
Amy Tan Film writer