Agree Quote by Eduardo Galeano

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

— Marguerite Duras

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for…

— Tristan Tzara

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the authorities here]…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for…

— Bob Schieffer

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

— Oscar Wilde

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma