Literature Written

Famous quotes containing the words literature and/or written:

“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)