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.
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
