“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
C'est avec de beaux sentiments qu'on fait de la mauvaise littérature.
Letter to François Mauriac (1929)
“Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”
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“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
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“In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language.”
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Sketches of English Literature, Vol II, p. 36 http://books.google.com/books?id=V9AtAAAAYAAJ, as translated by Henry Colburn <br class="br">Context: In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel.
Thomas Cahill book How the Irish Saved Civilization
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found
“A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday's clock, nor by today's but by tomorrow's.”
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian author
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday's clock, nor by today's but by tomorrow's. It is a sailor sent aloft: from the masthead he can see foundering ships, icebergs, and maelstroms still invisible from the deck. He can be dragged down from the mast and put to tending the boilers or working the capstan, but that will not change anything: the mast will remain, and the next man on the masthead will see what the first has seen.
In a storm, you must have a man aloft. We are in the midst of storm today, and SOS signals come from every side.
