I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called ‘global literature’ is going. – David Mitchell
I’ve loved ‘Vanity Fair’ since I was 16 years old. You know, we’re all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. – Mira Nair
Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue. – Darryl Pinckney
I have many books that I want to write; I’d like to think that I’ll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature… Never again another seven-volume saga. – George R. R. Martin
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. – Preston Sturges
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. – David Strathairn
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E. M. Forster
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. – George Henry Lewes
Maud Gonne was – excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. – Derrick Jensen
In some ways, getting published in children’s literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It’s less hinged on who you might know. – Marie Rutkoski
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne’er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties. – Michael Sims
Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you’re trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. – David Petraeus
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. – M. H. Abrams
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. – F. Sionil Jose
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. – Morris Raphael Cohen
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women’s literature. – Cristina Henriquez
Children’s books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I’m a children’s writer myself. – David Walliams
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. – David Eagleman
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. – Marguerite Duras
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. – Elizabeth George
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. – Natalie Massenet
I’d studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion. – Felicity Jones
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music… and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response. – Patch Adams
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. – David Eddings
When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I’d get a blank stare and sometimes a ‘Huh?’ They weren’t sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows. – Mary E. Pearson