Joy/literature

Famous quotes containing the words joy and/or literature:

“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is “enamoured” of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)