Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")
