“[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.”
Marcel Proust
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
Mark Twain
“DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
Ambrose Bierce
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.”
Douglas Hyde
“The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the literature. The Creole language also lends a flavor all its own, even in English, and the African tradition gives the literature a lot of folk tales and proverbs.”
David Brown
