There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
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.
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...
The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There was nowhere I longed to be more than the university campus. I was preparing for a master's on fantasy literature. I was interested in why t...
There is a vast expanse of time before the Norman Conquest in 1066, from which fragments of literary texts remain, although these fragments make quite a substantial body of work. If we consider that the same expanse of time has passed between Shakesp...
Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...
The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man ...
