Literature Quotes

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 Stephenson

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Cyril Connolly

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington