Arts and Literature
- John Beecher, activist poet
- Allen Barra, journalist, sports writer
- Joe David Brown, journalist, novelist
- Steven Ford Brown, publisher, translator, writer
- Mark Childress, author
- Jon Coffelt, artist
- Clayton Colvin, artist
- Dennis Covington, journalist, writer
- George R. Ellis (born 1937), author, art historian and director of Honolulu Academy of Arts
- Fannie Flagg, author, actress
- Frank Fleming, sculptor
- Charles Gaines, novelist, screenwriter
- Charles Ghigna, poet, children's author
- Gail Godwin, novelist
- John Green, novelist
- Joe Hilley, novelist
- Kerry James Marshall, artist
- Harold E. Martin, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman
- Spider Martin, photojournalist
- Robert R. McCammon, novelist
- Kevin McGowin, novelist, reviewer
- Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Walker Percy, author
- Howell Raines, New York Times editor
- James Redfield, novelist
- John Rhoden, sculptor
- Sonia Sanchez, poet
- Rowland Scherman, Grammy-award winning photographer
- Melissa Springer, photographer
- Ann Waldron (1924–2010), author.
- Margaret Walker, poet and author
- Tobias Wolff, author
- Daniel Wallace, novelist
- John Weld, newspaper reporter, writer, Hollywood stunt man
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)