“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
W. R. Inge
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades”
Mark Twain
“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”
Belva Lockwood
“Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.”
Dean Inge
“In an endless silence even screams sound silent.”
Dejan Stojanovic
