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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read
– Oscar Wilde

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  1. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
  2. Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread. – Oscar Wilde
  3. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. – Oscar Wilde
  4. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  5. I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. – Oscar Wilde
  6. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
  7. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  8. The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate. – RA Mathis
  9. There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  10. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I’d say it was tending toward ominous. – Amanda Bouchet
  11. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton
  12. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton
  13. There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  14. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  15. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde
  16. A really well-made ????onhole is the only link between Art and Nature. – Oscar Wilde
  17. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
  19. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. – Oscar Levant
  20. Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. – Timothy Snyder
  21. Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. – Julian Assange
  22. Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society. – Honor de Balzac
  23. If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. – David Halberstam
  24. In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition. – Ian McEwan
  25. The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it. – David Halberstam
  26. I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That’s why I still believe. I could always tell the difference. – Dee Henderson
  27. What’s the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don’t land but fall. What a difference a g makes! – Ana Claudia Antunes
  28. There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically…make sure you know the difference before you speak! – Pauline Seaport
  29. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
  30. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  31. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  32. We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
  33. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
  34. What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity? – Karen Essex
  35. One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug. – Jeannine Atkins
  36. The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud. – Manu Joseph
  37. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  38. I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
  39. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  40. Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser

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