In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.