Attention Quote by Italo Calvino

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“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

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

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

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare…

— Gwee Li Sui

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 don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out…

— Mark O'Connell

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

— Jonathan Ames