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“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.”

Literature Violence Command Crude

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.”

World Made Beautiful Spiritual Literature Violence Revolution Revolutionary New World Domain Battlefields Spiritual Freedom

Author:Gao Xingjian

“In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.”

“I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.”

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Author:Lidia Yuknavitch