Art Quote by Raymond Chandler

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

— Geraldine McEwan

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in,…

— Matthew Pearl

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

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes…

— Ivan Klíma

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

— Carlton Cuse

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to…

— Joe Meno

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer