Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.
literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature, it can bring some light.
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
