Mere Literary Quotes
- Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
- A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and… — Samuel Johnson
- Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? — Ellen Glasgow