A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any s...
