South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect... →
J. M. Coetzee
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their... →
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
Joan Collins
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood... →
Tony Conrad
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
Stephen Daldry
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an... →
Mark Z. Danielewski
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except... →
Robyn Davidson
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
Richard Dawkins
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature... →
Christopher Dawson