We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of…

“Living out and sharing our beautiful stories every day—both the failures and the successes—reveals the incredible ways God is moving in our lives. When…

— Courtney Westlake

“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind…

— Susan J. Tweit

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement…

— Herbert Spencer

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

— Carol Bly

In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of…

— Robert Olen Butler

Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial…

— Marleen S. Barr

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my…

— Michael Hersch

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new…

— Robertson Davies

“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it…

— Ambrose Bierce

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich