A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literature has become my life.
Literature is news that stays news.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.