In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
Andrzej Wajda

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda

Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Shimon Peres

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
Shimon Peres

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Thomas Mann

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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel

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

I studied literature design and fashion design.
Danielle Steel

Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing

Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard

All literature is political.
LeVar Burton

I've always said that music is like literature.
Jose Carreras

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge