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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

Virginia Woolf

Literature is the immortality of speech

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Joseph Brodsky

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

Nelson Algren

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D\'Israeli

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

W. Giese

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In literature imitations do not imitate

Mark Twain

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