Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.