Literature Quotes

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

But what is the difference between literature and journalism... Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis