People do not deserve to have good
writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literature is the art of writing something
that will be read twice; journalism what
will be grasped at once.
?Cyril Connolly
Only two classes of books are of universal
appeal. The very best and the very worst.
?Ford Madox Ford
People create stories create people; or
rather stories create people create stories.
?Chinua Achebe
The decline in literature indicates a
decline in the nation. The two keep
pace in their downward tendency.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Literature is the question minus the answer.
?Roland Barthes
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in
man, never yet was put into words or books.
?Herman Melville
A classic is a book that has never
finished saying what it has to say.
?Italo Calvino
Literature, the most seductive,
the most deceiving, the most
dangerous of professions.
?John Morley
To provoke dreams of terror in the
slumber of prosperity has become
the moral duty of literature.
?Ernst Fischer
Learning why one great book is just like every other
great book is the key to understanding literature
?John Moschitta
Literature becomes the
living memory of a nation.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Literature is news that stays news.
?Ezra Pound
All literature is gossip.
?Truman Capote
Writing is the only profession where no one
considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
?Jules Renard
Literature is the immortality of speech.
?August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
