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Good Literature Quotes

David Foster Wallace quote: "Good literature makes your head throb heartlike"
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike David Foster Wallace
In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. Gilbert K. Chesterton
C. S. Lewis quote: "The world does not need more Christian literature. What it..."
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. C. S. Lewis
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. Edgar Rice Burroughs
I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature. Mark Twain
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain. Virginia Woolf
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would. Amber Benson
Aldous Huxley quote: "Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature...."
Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life. Aldous Huxley
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. Stephen Covey
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness. Mario Vargas Llosa
[I]f creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing: translating an old (known) abstraction (theme or thesis) through the medium of old fiction means (that is, characters, events or situations used before for that same purpose, that same translation) -- this is most of the popular trash; translating an old abstraction through new, original fiction means -- this is most of the good literature; creating a... Ayn Rand
Gene Wolfe quote: "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by..."
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. Gene Wolfe
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment. Aldous Huxley
George Henry Lewes quote: "All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
All good Literature rests primarily on insight. George Henry Lewes
S. I. Hayakawa quote: "In a very real sense, people who have read good literature..."
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa

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