#literature

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. ↗

— Steven Brust

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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