Art Quote by Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human.…

— Nicole Krauss

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

— Amos Oz

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living,…

— M. John Harrison

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa