I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been copied. Software, on the other hand, was an awkward late addition to the original Copyright Act of 1976, shoehorned into section 102(a) as a 'literary work.'
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature.
Literature is a house with many mansions.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
