Arnold Bennett Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

  Arnold Bennett

  Men, Literature, May

  Arnold Bennett (1914). “Literary Taste: How to Form it : with Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature”, London ; New York ; Toronto : [s.n.

• The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

  Arnold Bennett

  Long, Literature, World

• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

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