Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

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.

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.