Accommodate Quote by Mary Baker Eddy

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of…

— Arthur Miller

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for…

— Joanna Scott

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it…

— Emma Goldman

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

— Anonymous