If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Source: In Introduction to Barthes: Selected Writings, Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes, 1982.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, (Jun 21 1905-1980), French author, dramatist; He was a major playwright and exponent of existentialism, e.g., Being and Nothingness, 1943.