Serious Literature Quotes
- Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
- I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted… — Russell Banks
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That… — Doris Lessing
- Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz
- Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield
- I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson