Perfectly Useless Quotes

5 quotes by 5 authors

• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
• What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. — Elizabeth Bishop
• If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. — Lin Yutang
• One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
• We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind… — Kelley Armstrong

Who Wrote These Perfectly Useless Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 5 Perfectly Useless Quotes as follows:

• 1 Perfectly Useless Quote by Elizabeth Bishop
• 1 Perfectly Useless Quote by Lin Yutang
• 1 Perfectly Useless Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 Perfectly Useless Quote by Kelley Armstrong
• 1 Perfectly Useless Quote by Harold Bloom