The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the…

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

— John Keats

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

— John Green

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

— Channing Tatum

“By having a great many friends I do not prove that I have a wide appreciation of human excellence. You might as well say…

— C. S. LEWIS

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will…

— Arnold Bennett

“nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”

— Lynne Truss

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil