Balance Quote by Edward Abbey

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

— George Gissing

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

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

— Amelia B. Edwards

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

— Frances Harper

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

— Anonymous

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind…

— Claire Messud