All kinds Quote by Jeanette Winterson

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

— Mark Slouka

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's…

— Maya Angelou

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not really easy…

— Jan Brett

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from…

— Anonymous