#liter

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#inconceivable #literature #sex #unconcerned

Remarks are not literature. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#remarks

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#art #contemporary #difference #enough #generation

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#believe #dedication #does #hold #i

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Stendhal

#gun #however #ignore #impossible #like

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#art #criticism #dislike #function #help

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#could #criticism #far #i #kind

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#literature #love #men #suffer #them

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#children #demand #escape #especially #fantasy