#literature

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#literature #writing #propaganda

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 ↗

— John Steinbeck

#writing #change

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

From nothing comes everything. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#everything #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #poetry

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#boredom #deceit #dejan-stojanovic #dispelling #literature

With your goal you make the one. ↗