Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would…

— Oscar Wilde

“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

— Oscar Wilde

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

— Marc Andreessen

“Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.…

— Oscar Wilde

I call a spade a spade.

— Lee Zeldin

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play…

— kurt Vonnegut

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is…

— Lucy Corin

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel