People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

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.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.