Literary Taste Quotes

#1. Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.

Elizabeth Peters

#3. A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Channing Tatum

#4. The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.

Roger Shattuck

#5. 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

#6. To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value.

Claire Messud

#7. People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#8. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Dorothy Parker

#10. If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Dean Koontz

#11. Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

Doris Lessing

#12. If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.

Charlaine Harris

#15. But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Pema Chodron

#17. Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

Joseph Joubert