“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
Bertolt Brecht
“The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.”
Vanna Bonta
“I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant”
Mark Twain
“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron
“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”
Clive James
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it”
