Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
—17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)