Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature
“I am the penny whistle of American literature.”
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.