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

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

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

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

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

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

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong

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

Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing

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

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida

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

Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound

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.
Augusten Burroughs

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