"I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing"
- Stephen Greenblatt
About this Quote
This quote by Stephen Greenblatt emphasizes the importance of literature in supplying enjoyment to its readers. He thinks that literature should not be dealt with as a tough topic like nuclear physics, however rather as something that needs to be delighted in. He suggests that literature should be available and pleasurable, and that it ought to be written with the intent of providing pleasure to its readers. He recommends that if literature does not supply satisfaction, then it is unworthy anything. This quote highlights the importance of literature in providing entertainment and pleasure to its readers, and emphasizes the need for literature to be written with the objective of providing pleasure.
This quote is written / told by Stephen Greenblatt somewhere between November 7, 1943 and today. He/she was a famous Critic from USA.
The author also have 19 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted"
"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool"
"What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better"
