Conviction Quote by George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

— George Eliot

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

— 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

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

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

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

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

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a…

— Ali Smith