Literature Cannot Quotes
- The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or… — P.D. James
- Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the… — James Connolly
- The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan
- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. — Gore Vidal
- Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something… — Italo Calvino
- Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn