Books Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new…

— Robertson Davies

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John Steinbeck

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories…

— Herbert Gold

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our…

— Saul Bellow

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot…

— Philip Larkin

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen