Quotes About Literary Merit

#1. A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Marcel Proust

#2. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.

Beryl Dov

#3. It's hard to judge literary merit.

Henry Rollins

#4. Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.

Jonathan Barnes

#5. At bottom it is always a writer's tendency, his "purpose," his "message," that makes him liked or disliked. The proof of this is the extreme difficulty of seeing any literary merit in a book that seriously damages your deepest beliefs.

George Orwell

#6. National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

Rudolf Hess

#7. There is time for every sacred activity under the sun.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

Mark Twain

#9. If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

Meg Collett

#10. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Michael Moorcock

#11. The quality of your life is the outcome of your own thoughts

Laureli Blyth

#12. The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression.

Lauren Beukes

#13. When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.

Kiefer Sutherland

#14. Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone

Bing Crosby

#15. In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

Vikram Seth

#16. Any man that puts other family first before his own immediate family is sure heading for a future disaster because; family is everything".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#17. I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Sonakshi Sinha

#18. I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

Ron Brackin

#19. To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Epictetus