I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.