Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.