“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

“Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.”

“Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.”

“Giving state support to literature is the state's sneaky way for the state liquidation of literature.”

“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

“In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”

“The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and … often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”

“Remarks are not literature.”