Literature Quotes

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