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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“Literature must become Party literature.... Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
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—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)