Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?
So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.
