Literature Quotes

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.
John Steinbeck

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

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