Books Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits…

— David Hume

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready…

— Anonymous

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.…

— Mo Yan

“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there…

— Andrew Barger

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more…

— Edward Abbey

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade