It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afrai...
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their resp...
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, C...
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.
the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
