Literature Quote by Ross Wetzsteon

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

— George William Russell

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what…

— Paul Auster

“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

— Mike Philbin

“a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody”

— Seamus Deane

“Real literature, great literature, moves people.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom,…

— Ezra Pound

“The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass…

— Roger Scruton

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good man of…

— Howard Jacobson