Talk:Literature

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 * [Literature is] an organised violence committed on ordinary speech.
 * Roman Jakobson


 * 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 on Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge by Sidney J. Perelman


 * 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


 * 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


 * Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?
 * Fred Allen, after writers had heavily edited his script


 * Why don't you write books people can read?
 * Mrs. Nora Joyce to her husband, James Joyce