#literature

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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I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Armand Assante

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would. ↗

— Amber Benson

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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. ↗

— Amanda Coplin

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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