--- title: "5 Literature Consists Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Literature Consists quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Literature Consists sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/steven-brust-7934_agree_all-literature-consists-of-whatever-the_464696.png" --- > [All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-brust/all-literature-consists-of-whatever-the-writer-thinks-is-cool-the/) [Steven Brust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-brust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/steven-brust-7934_agree_all-literature-consists-of-whatever-the_464696.png) > [And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/and-all-over-the-world-the-old-literature-the-popular-literature-is/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff9/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_art_and-all-over-the-world-the-old-literatur_528445.png) > [My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/my-confidence-in-the-future-of-literature-consists-in-the-knowledge/) [Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85e/italo-calvino-402_books_my-confidence-in-the-future-of-literatur_779702.jpg) > [“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-gustafsson/the-fantastic-in-literature-doesn-t-exist-as-a-challenge-to-what-is/) [Lars Gustafsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-gustafsson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c1/lars-gustafsson-36449_books_the-fantastic-in-literature-doesn-t-exis_2066096.jpg) > [“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-brust/the-cool-stuff-theory-of-literature-is-as-follows-all-literature/) [Steven Brust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-brust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e6/steven-brust-7934_books_the-cool-stuff-theory-of-literature-is-a_2209075.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/literature-consists/#itemlist", "name": "Literature Consists Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. 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This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. 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