Famous quotes containing the words literature and/or written:
“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)
“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)