#liter

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. ↗

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#women #literature

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#literature #literature

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗

— Al Pacino

#literature #reading #literature

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #literary-tradition #truth #beauty

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#dirty work #i #know #literal #men

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #contemporary-fiction #contemporary-literarture #downtown #dream

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗