Excessive Quote by George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

— George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing…

— George Eliot

“Literary censorship should not be necessary within the parameters of the law because it's simply a reflection of prevailing social prejudices! Writing should challenge…

— Jack Tar

Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass…

— George Will

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by…

— Storm Jameson

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

— Junot Diaz

“The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper page with…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor…

— Josh Gondelman