Art Quote by Aldous Huxley

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

— Boris Pasternak

“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.”

— Stephen King

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a…

— John Updike

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.”

— Aldous Huxley

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and…

— Salman Rushdie

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .…

— Robert Dessaix

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway…

— Walter Mosley