Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U. S.
I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.