I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Literature is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments.
An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
Carol-Anne, American Goddess: The thing that's gonna make it more crowded? Harriet. Jeannie, American Angel: Oh, Harriet! Carol-Anne, American Goddess: You haven't met Harriet. Colin: There's a fourth one? Carol-Anne, American Goddess, Jeannie, Amer...
I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.
literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
