Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
– GK Chesterton
Related Quotes:
- Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury – Jeanette Winterson
- At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- How can we read when people need our help? It’s a luxury. A stupid luxury. – Gary Shteyngart
- Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. – Jay Samit
- Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind. – Abhijit Naskar
- The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccol Machiavelli
- People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis. – Jean Monnet
- The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man-¦ therefore increase your necessity. – Idries Shah
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. – Anthony Powell
- Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. – GK Chesterton
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- …what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it. – Bruce Meyer
- Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world. – Claire Colebrook
- An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction. – Victoria Clayton
- I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction. – Nike N Chillemi
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven. – Robert M Roberts
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams