Quotes on literature
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Literature is news that stays news.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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Anatole France Quotes
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
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Richard Livingstone Quotes
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Italo Calvino Quotes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Roland Barthes Quotes
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
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James Russell Lowell Quotes
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
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Samual McChord Crothers Quotes
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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E.M. Forster Quotes
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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Clifton Fadiman Quotes
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Every man's memory is his private literature.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Samuel Lover Quotes
The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes