Books Quote by Charles Baxter

Literature is not an instruction manual.

— Charles Baxter

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

“... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.”

— Tania Aebi

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

— Tristan Tzara

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”

— Amy Joy

“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people…

— China Miéville

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

That complete statement which is literature.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

“Literature; not litterature.”

— Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen