Civilised Quote by James Payn

Literature precedes genre.

— Rick Moody

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

— George Henry Lewes

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills…

— Edmund White

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

— James Payn

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years…

— P. D. James

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

— Anonymous

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we…

— Reza Aslan

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the…

— Theresa Breslin

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe