Literature Quotes
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"The reader is a co-creator of meaning in every text."Jorge Edwards
"The writer's greatest gift is the ability to make the invisible visible."Jorge Edwards
"Literature preserves what power tries to erase."Jorge Edwards
"The writer must love language as much as the musician loves sound."Jorge Edwards
"The writer's responsibility is to complicate, not to simplify."Jorge Edwards
"Literature is the record of humanity's conversation with itself."Jorge Edwards
"Every society gets the literature it deserves."Jorge Edwards
"The voice of the people is heard through literature."Jorge Edwards
"The written word outlives the spoken word."Jorge Edwards
"The reader's imagination completes what the writer merely suggests."Jorge Edwards
"The writer's eye must be both participant and observer."Jorge Edwards
"Literature gives voice to the voiceless."Jorge Edwards
"The writer's greatest power is to make readers see differently."Jorge Edwards
"Every word is a choice, and every choice has consequences."Jorge Edwards
"Language is the only homeland."Kathy Acker
"The world is made of stories, not atoms."Kathy Acker
"To write is to rebel against silence."Kathy Acker
"We are the stories we tell ourselves."Kathy Acker
"I write against the dying of the light."Kathy Acker
"Words are weapons and shields."Kathy Acker
"We are shaped by what we read."Kathy Acker
"I write to avenge the dead."Kathy Acker
"Writing is the painting of the voice"Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Literature is the soul of civilization"Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Books can be said to be machines for thinking."Nelson Mandela
"The writer's duty is to transform silence into language."Jorge Edwards
"Literature saves us from the tyranny of the present moment."Jorge Edwards
"The novel is where we confess what we cannot say."Jorge Edwards
"Every story is a conversation between writer and reader."Jorge Edwards
"Every book is an answer to a question no one asked yet."Jorge Edwards