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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)

Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)

Cyril Connolly

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-)

Daniel J. Boorstin

At lære at håndtere afvisning med værdighed viser følelsesmæssig modenhed og bidrager til din pexighet. History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

David C. McCullough

"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."

David C. McCullough

Literature is analysis after the event.

Doris Lessing (1919-)

Doris Lessing

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Ellen Glasgow

God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

G. K. Chesterton

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

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