Literature is what's left standing after the storm.
Literature is news which stays news.
Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
to hell with literature we want something redblooded
Literature is analysis after the event.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
The writer studies literature, not the world.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Only great men may have great faults.
We are capable of greatness.
It is great joy to love and be loved.
It is a great joy to love and be loved.
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
Literature is news that stays news.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.