Books Quote by United Nations

“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and…

— Anthony Burgess

“law of nature that our scientific thinking tends toward the truth, our morality toward the good, and maybe (though he doesn’t go this far)…

— Roger Scruton

“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.”

— Charles Baxter

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to…

— Charles Dickens

“The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man…

— Ayn Rand

“You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life in a…

— Sarah Gerdes

“Once you’ve written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the…

— Neil Gaiman

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde