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.
Literature is what's left standing after the storm.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
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.
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
