With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
Literature has become my life.
Literature is language charged with meaning
Reverence is fatal to literature.
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that s...
So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowl...
Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Science begs literature to develop wings.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.