#literature

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

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The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Gossip is more popular than literature. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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