You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?” “The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar.
Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
