Literary Significance and Criticism
In a 1921 interview for Bookman, Willa Cather said, "I decided not to 'write' at all, - simply to give myself up to the pleasure of recapturing in memory people and places I'd forgotten."
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Famous quotes containing the words literary, significance and/or criticism:
“There can be no literary equivalent to truth.”
—Laura Riding (1901–1991)
“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)