Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• [N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Real, Book, Mind

• this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Diversity, Devil

• Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Knowledge, Civilization, Literature

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.460, Open Road Media

• make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Expression, Stories

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