(1021 quotes found)
“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 affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.”
Dorothy Parker
“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
“The Bible is literature, not dogma.”
George Santayana
“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
“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
Woody Allen
“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades”
Mark Twain
