Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Drawing, People

• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Believe, Writing

  "About Writing". www.kingsolver.com.

• Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Empathy, Literature

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Perspective, Empathy, Political

• We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Literature, Should

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