Culture Quote by Irvine Welsh

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to…

— Walter Mosley

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something…

— Anne Fortier

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously,…

— Edward Hirsch

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

— Jonathan Ames

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the…

— Robert Hass