Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

“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

“A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.”

— Anonymous

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

— Oscar Wilde

“...words are always imperfect, words are just sounds we make with our mouths that point our minds to think of things that cannot be…

— Ivan E. Coyote

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.”

— Plato

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship…

— Nema Al-Araby

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”

— John Steinbeck

“For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of…

— Criss Jami