Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.