Ems Quote by Graham Foust

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

— August Kleinzahler

“Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they are. It…

— Lauren Dane

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

— Irving Stone

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And…

— Aldous Huxley

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of…

— Russell Lynes

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their…

— Samuel Johnson

I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a…

— Dario Robleto