All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. Steven Brust
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. Melissa Bank
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. Tucker Max
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. David Brin
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.C. S. Lewis
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. Anne Fadiman
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. Ama Ata Aidoo
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems. Italo Calvino
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems. Italo Calvino
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell banks
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. Bill Walton
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings
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
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment. Janet Fitch
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood