Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away alone and get to work.

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

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.