Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Literature has become my life.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.