Quotes
Quotes about Literature
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Literature is news that stays news.
All literature is gossip.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Literature is my utopia.
