Amazing quotes about literature

Literature is an organised violence committed on ordinary speech. (Roman Jakobson)
The covers of this book are too far apart. (Ambrose Bierce)

We have met too late. You are too old for me to have any effect on you. (James Joyce to William Butler Yeats)

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend to read it. (Groucho Marx)

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come. (Raymond Chandler)

It’s not that he ‘bites off more than he can chew’ but he chews more than he bites off. (Clover Adams)
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. (Oscar Wilde)

Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? (Fred Allen)

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