Marcel Proust
Novelist
"A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author."
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Literary Merit
6 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Stephen King
Author
"...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"It's hard to judge literary merit."
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