Best work Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the highest form…

— Oscar Wilde

“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the…

— Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics,…

— Karan Mahajan

“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music,…

— César Aira

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with…

— Elbert Hubbard

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

— Peter Porter

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of…

— Katherine Paterson

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell