Literature Value Quotes

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.