Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
Gru: This is literature? A two year old could have written this!
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
