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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature is news that stays news.

All literature is gossip.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.