Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because... →
Mary MacLane
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
Alistair MacLeod
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz
Without literature my life would be miserable.
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab... →
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Thomas Mann
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James.... →
George R. R. Martin
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
Natalie Massenet