Books Quote by Anonymous

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the…

— Gulzar

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and…

— H. L. Mencken

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my…

— Don DeLillo

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring,…

— Foz Meadows

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them…

— G.K. Chesterton