1. When literature becomes half commodity and half art, it will prosper - [English] Ralph
2. Society provides materials for literature , literature provides norms to society. -----Guo Moruo
3. Literature is the textbook of human life---Chernyshevsky
4. People who engage in literature only need to be perseverant. Be serious and have three toughnesses, and that's it. ----Lu Xun
5. Literature---in fact, it has always been a partner of education; the development of literature and the development of educational requirements have always been parallel. [Russian] Dobrolyubov
6. Literature makes thoughts full of flesh and blood. It can give thoughts great clarity and explanation better than philosophy or science. [Su] Gorky
7. Literature is like fire in a furnace. We borrow fire from others, ignite ourselves, and then pass it on to others, so that it is accepted by everyone. ---[French] Flaubert
8. Any literature that does not take the perfection of morality, ideals and usefulness as its purpose is pathological and unhealthy literature.
----[France] Xiao Dumas
9. Literature should foresee the future and run at the forefront with its most beautiful and inspiring achievements, as if it is protecting life moving forward. -----[Soviet] A. Tolstoy