(437 quotes found)
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”
“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
“There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.”
Bertrand Russell
“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
“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
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