Ambition Quote by H. G. Wells

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

— Northrop Frye

Life without literary studies is death.

— Seneca the Younger

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

— Alberto Manguel

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

— John W. Campbell

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

— Terry Eagleton

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

There's no literary merit in my books.

— Clive Cussler

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm