Books Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms…

— Paul de Man

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

— Richard M. Weaver

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a…

— Edward Abbey

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

— John Updike

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

— Thomas Carlyle

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives…

— Samuel Johnson

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe