If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
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.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
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.
