I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a... →
Leslie Fiedler
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things... →
Martin Filler
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed... →
Robert Fitzgerald
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Dario Fo
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature... →
Richard Ford
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
Reverence is fatal to literature.