Quotes About Literature

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. "M.A.S.H." comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.