Famous quotes containing the words literature and/or written:
“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness or feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgement, I consistently can. But you must act.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)