Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
That 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.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
