literature - quotes

Helen (Adams) Keller, 1880-1968

was an US blind and deaf educator

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

( “The Critic as Artist”, 1891 )

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

was an English novelist

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

( “A Room of One's Own”, 1929 )

André Maurois, 1885-1967

was a French author

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.