| Author |
Quotes |
| Jovius | They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. |
| Jules Renard | Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. |
| Jules Renard | Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. |
| Levar Burton | All literature is political. |
| Lord Byron | I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library. |
| Louis Untermeyer | Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines. |
| Margaret Atwood | The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. |
| Marilyn Butler | English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. |
| Max Eastman | A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. |
| Maxwell Bodenheim | Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. |
| Montesquieu | After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. |
| Muriel Rukeyser | The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. |
| Norman Douglas | The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. |
| Northrop Frye | In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. |
| Oliver Herford | This book fills a much-needed gap. |
| Richard Hughes | All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. |
| Robert Burns | The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. |
| Robert Fitzgerald | Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. |
| Robertson Davies | The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. |
| Roland Barthes | Literature is the question minus the answer. |
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