In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and…

— Janet Burroway

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white…

— John Hodgman

“But even when curiosity has gotten me in trouble, it has been interesting trouble. Curiosity”

— Brian Grazer

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

— Eleanor Catton

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human…

— Ellen Ullman

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

— Joseph Brodsky

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro