The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn’t take a science-fiction short story that’s published now and turn it into a movie. There’d be way too much ground work you’d have to lay. It’s OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it’s not going to translate to a broader audience.

I look at a streak as I don’t lose. Literally.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I’ve been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

The golden age of mathematical literature is undoubtedly past.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is – to teach; the function of the second is – to move

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn’t end up really doing that in the end.

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It’s purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

The power of literature is that it brings us inside a person, a situation, a place, and allows us to see the world through their eyes.

I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life – and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children’s literature.

Reading is as close as we come to teleportation.

Not every book has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth reading.

The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people

He has done more than anyone for the Spanish language since Cervantes.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I got to tell you a little something about yourself You’re wonderful, flawless, you a sexy lady

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon

Bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

If you’re going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.