Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing

Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Ezra Pound

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Ezra Pound

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
Dorothy Day

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola

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

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

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Thomas Huxley

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn