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“Comfort with an art form that uses language comes because we all own it, to one degree or another. Words come from flesh and…

— Dan Fox

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out…

— Mark O'Connell

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more…

— John Steinbeck

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry