Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science it is an aid to art.

When we blindly adopt a religion a political system a literary dogma we become automatons. We cease to grow.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches copies of copies until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity doubt uncertainty not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material but because that is the way we humans really are.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

Probably induced by the asthma I started reading and writing early on my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.