Books Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

— Davy Jones

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

— Walter Kirn

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you”

— alisa hope wagner

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it…

— John Hodgman

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

— Bryant H. McGill

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous