Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and…

— John Steinbeck

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories,…

— Dave DiGrazie