(1021 quotes found)
“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose”
Margaret Atwood
“Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.”
Oscar Wilde
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
T.S. Eliot
“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis
“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”
“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
Raymond Chandler
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
