The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.
Julia Leigh
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Doris Lessing
Literature is analysis after the event.
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
Jane Levy
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.