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So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

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.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.