When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
The writer studies literature, not the world.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Stacey, American Dreamgirl: [points to beer bottle] What do you call that? Colin: Uh, Bottle. Stacey, American Dreamgirl, Jeannie, American Angel, Carol-Anne, American Goddess: [giggling, mimicking accent] BOHT-el! Jeannie, American Angel: [points ...
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
Literature is news that stays news.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
