Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in... →
Manuel Puig
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
Raymond Queneau
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
Kathy Reichs
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
Nathaniel Rich
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Paul Ricoeur