“I am fit for nothing but literature.”
John Keats
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
Oscar Wilde
“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”
Caroline Kennedy
“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades”
Mark Twain
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
“The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything”
Thomas Nixon Carver
