Books Quote by Mary McCarthy

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the…

— Harold Bloom

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

— Ambrose Bierce

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

— Carol Bly

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

— Thornton Wilder

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely…

— Oscar Wilde

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man