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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. -- Ravi Shankar
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. -- Ian Mcewan
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. -- Umberto Eco
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
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. -- Connie Willis
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.' -- Miguel Syjuco
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people. -- Graham Joyce
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature. -- Denise Mina
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. -- Andrzej Wajda
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it. -- Patricia Heaton
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too. -- Kate Bernheimer
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of. -- Miguel Syjuco
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue. -- Miguel Syjuco
Science fiction is the very literature of change. -- Frederik Pohl
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Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. -- Christian Bauman
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. -- A. S. Byatt
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. -- Mark Twain
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. -- Tom Shippey
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge -- FÃ©lix J. Palma
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado. -- Miguel Syjuco
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. -- Orhan Pamuk
We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. -- John Leo
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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