"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity"
- Armand Assante
About this Quote
This quote by Armand Assante talks to the power of literature and its ability to transfer us to brand-new worlds and viewpoints. It suggests that literature is vital to our lives, like air, and that without it, we are delegated suffer in a state of mediocrity. Assante is recommending that without literature, we are unable to experience the beauty and intricacy of life, and instead are left to exist in an ordinary and unfulfilling state. He is highlighting the value of literature in our lives, and how it can assist us to escape the ordinary and experience something higher. By checking out literature, we can acquire insight into various cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles, and can be inspired to believe more deeply about our own lives. Assante's quote is a suggestion of the value of literature in our lives, and how it can help us to get away the mediocrity of everyday life.
This quote is written / told by Armand Assante somewhere between October 4, 1949 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
The author also have 17 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted"
"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"
"What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better"
"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature"
