Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.
Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
