I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
Our literature is in great shape.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.