The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

- Annie Dillard

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

- Antonin Artaud

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

- Anthony Horowitz

Each person has a literature inside them.

- Anna Deavere Smith

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

- Andrew O'Hagan

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

- Andre Maurois

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

- Alice McDermott

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

- Alexander Payne

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

- Alan Bennett

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

- Arundhati Roy

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Aldous Huxley

The writer studies literature, not the world.

- Annie Dillard

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

- Annie Besant

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

- Alfred North Whitehead

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

- Alfred North Whitehead

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu