Good Literature Quotes

25 Good Literature quotes by 24 unique authors

• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S I Hayakawa
• We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat
• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is… — Larry Dossey
• Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language… — Judith Barrington
• I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be… — Amber Benson
• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious… — Ethel Smyth
• For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an… — Junot Diaz
• All good Literature rests primarily on insight. — George Henry Lewes
• My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe
• God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing… — Aldous Huxley
• It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean
• Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best… — Walter Moers
• No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a… — Virginia Woolf
• There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Stephen Covey
• ‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and… — Mario Vargas Llosa
• Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Elif Safak
• Good literature makes your head throb heartlike — David Foster Wallace
• The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

Who Wrote These Good Literature Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Good Literature Quotes as follows:

• 2 Good Literature Quotes by S I Hayakawa
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Walter Moers
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Stephen Covey
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Ruth Glick
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Pamela Dean
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Larry Dossey
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Junot Diaz
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Judith Barrington
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Italo Calvino
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Greg Graffin
• 1 Good Literature Quote by George Henry Lewes
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Gene Wolfe
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Ethel Smyth
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Elif Safak
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Edwidge Danticat
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 1 Good Literature Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• 1 Good Literature Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Amber Benson
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• 1 Good Literature Quote by Aldous Huxley