It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Pop changes week to week month to month. But great music is like literature.
Develop interest in life as you see it in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
When you kill somebody in the movies it matters whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture including TV magazines movies and video games.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature theatre music and all the visual arts.
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
Books are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life the peaceful walks of literature and learning to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.