Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.10 10 One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize that the quickest way to kill an author's...
O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must per...
To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
I've got a great wife, a great life.
It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to discuss them with bright, insightful, book-loving people, an expectation that I pretty quickly learned was about as silly as it could be. Cer...
