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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. -- T. S. Eliot
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. -- Herman Melville
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ? -- Dana Gioia
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf. -- Jo Walton
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. -- Oscar Wilde
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. -- Nadine Gordimer
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
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
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

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