The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly
Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder
Literature is news that stays news. Ezra Pound
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. Dean Inge
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose. Margaret Atwood
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. George Ade
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A E Housman
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. George Borrow
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper – whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Willa Cather
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller