Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

I've always said that music is like literature.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

All literature is gossip.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

All literature is political.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.