All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
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.
It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's emotional transference that you don't have in literature that you have in movies. People invest in the person they see on the screen and they can't shift gears.
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive. . . books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
There's nothing political about American literature.
Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.