Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible than reading your alternative weekly from ten years ago. People really aspired to write clearly.
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women.
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.