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:
“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)