Literature
- John Bell (publisher) (1745–1831), English publisher
- John Bell (folk music) (1783–1864), English folk song collector
- John Bell (traveller) (1691–1780), Scottish traveller and author
- John Joy Bell (1871–1934), Scottish author
- John Bell (historian) (born 1952), Canadian archivist and comic book historian
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“No state can build
A literature that shall at once be sound
And sad on a foundation of well-being.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)