| "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." »Oscar Wilde |
| "literature is the orchestration of platitudes." »Thornton |
| "literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood." »Georges Bataille |
| "In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." »Andr Maurois |
| "literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." »Spencer Silver |
| "literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly |
| "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." »Elizabeth Drew |
| "literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." »William Orville Douglas |
| "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." »Samuel Butler |
| "There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." »Stephen Stills |
| "literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf |
| "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington |
| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues." »Phillips Brooks |
| "literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty." »Lionel Trilling |
| "Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." »Isaac Asimov |
| "literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." »Helen Keller |
| "Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory." »Salman Rushdie |
| "Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." »Barbara Tuchman |
| "literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly |
| "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." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." »T. S. Eliot |
| "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." »James Earl Jones |
| "It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." »Eric Anderson |
| "The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." »John Burroughs |
| "literature is news that stays news." »Ezra Pound |
| "Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." »Henry Miller |
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