Action Quote by John W. Campbell

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

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

— Lionel Trilling

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

— Anonymous

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

— Carol Bly

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

— Elif Batuman

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

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

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

— Mark Slouka

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa