Truth is most beautiful undraped.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
