Art of life Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature…

— James Joyce

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and…

— J. G. Ballard

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners,…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett