Literature

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Quotes regarding Literature

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• That doesn't matter. Don't you give up on this [library] card. Because books can be solid gold. Yeah, the great ones have gotten us through the nights for centuries. Just give a writer an hour to hook you and if he can't wish him the best of luck and find someone else.
  • Anthony Hopkins, Hearts in Atlantis movie

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• [Literature is] an organised violence committed on ordinary speech.
  • Roman Jakobson

• From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend to read it.
  • Groucho Marx on Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge by Sidney J. Perelman

• Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
  • Oscar Wilde

• If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
  • Raymond Chandler

• It's not that he 'bites off more than he can chew' but he chews more than he bites off.
  • Clover Adams on Henry James

• The covers of this book are too far apart.
  • Ambrose Bierce

• We have met too late. You are too old for me to have any effect on you.
  • James Joyce to William Butler Yeats

• Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?
  • Fred Allen, after writers had heavily edited his script

• Why don't you write books people can read?
  • Mrs. Nora Joyce to her husband, James Joyce

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
  • Samuel Johnson

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