Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed — then its love...
There are only two ways to reach the truth -- with literature and agriculture.
If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing int...
Touch magic. Pass it on.
I am the penny whistle of American literature.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their ...
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, thi...
