Quotes About Literature

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Thou art a Castilian King urinal!

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Without a doubt, I must read, all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

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Hammett, David Morrell, Michael Crichton, and even Georges Simenon translations.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.