Quotes about Literary

Literary critics make natural detectives. Votes: 3

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. Votes: 3

Literary theories will not make a writer write. Votes: 3

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics. Votes: 3

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings. Votes: 3

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. Votes: 3

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. Votes: 3

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. Votes: 3

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. Votes: 3

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. Votes: 3

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. Votes: 3

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx. Votes: 3

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Votes: 3

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression. Votes: 3

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. Votes: 3

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast. Votes: 3

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. Votes: 3

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. Votes: 3

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. Votes: 3

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. Votes: 3

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. Votes: 3

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. Votes: 3

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. Votes: 3

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. Votes: 3

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. Votes: 3

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. Votes: 3

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. Votes: 3

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising. Votes: 3

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. Votes: 3

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. Votes: 3

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words. Votes: 3

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book. Votes: 3

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Votes: 3

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. Votes: 3

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires. Votes: 3

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. Votes: 2

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. Votes: 2

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. Votes: 2

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Votes: 2

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. Votes: 2

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Votes: 2

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. Votes: 2

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. Votes: 2

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. Votes: 2

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Votes: 2

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. Votes: 2

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. Votes: 2

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. Votes: 2

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about. Votes: 2

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 2

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. Votes: 2

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. Votes: 2

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. Votes: 2

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. Votes: 2

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. Votes: 2

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Votes: 2

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. Votes: 2

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. Votes: 2

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' Votes: 2

I have no literary fears. Votes: 0

Tragedy is a literary concept. Votes: 0

English culture is highly literary-based. Votes: 0

Suggestion is a literary strategy. Votes: 0

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition, Votes: 0

Your literary style reflects your personality. Votes: 0

Life without literary studies is death. Votes: 0

It's hard to judge literary merit. Votes: 0

Cruelty is not a literary value. Votes: 0

My literary success meant nothing to me Votes: 0

Verbose is not a synonym for literary. Votes: 0

All my big heroes are literary, writers. Votes: 0

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. Votes: 0

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Votes: 0

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. Votes: 0

A literary achievement of the highest order. Votes: 0

My literary success meant nothing to me. Votes: 0

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected. Votes: 0

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. Votes: 0

A literary woman's best critic is her husband ... Votes: 0

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. Votes: 0

There can be no literary equivalent to truth. Votes: 0

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. Votes: 0

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. Votes: 0

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention. Votes: 0

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic. Votes: 0

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage. Votes: 0

I have no literary approach - except to literature. Votes: 0

I know important literary writers who can't get published. Votes: 0

I do not come out of a literary tradition. Votes: 0

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity Votes: 0

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice. Votes: 0

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen. Votes: 0

I have been the creative literary mind of the century. Votes: 0

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. Votes: 0

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. Votes: 0

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. Votes: 0

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. Votes: 0

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles. Votes: 0

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? Votes: 0

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Votes: 0

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. Votes: 0

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. Votes: 0

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years Votes: 0

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art. Votes: 0

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Votes: 0

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. Votes: 0

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Votes: 0

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life. Votes: 0

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. Votes: 0

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. Votes: 0

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. Votes: 0

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. Votes: 0

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. Votes: 0

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. Votes: 0

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels. Votes: 0

...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. Votes: 0

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. Votes: 0

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. Votes: 0

The only literary men are those who have to work at it. Votes: 0

The great break of my literary career was going to law school. Votes: 0

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike Votes: 0

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Votes: 0

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. Votes: 0

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. Votes: 0

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. Votes: 0

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. Votes: 0

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices. Votes: 0

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. Votes: 0

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. Votes: 0

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything Votes: 0

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class. Votes: 0

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Votes: 0

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents. Votes: 0

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. Votes: 0

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. Votes: 0

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. Votes: 0

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. Votes: 0

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Votes: 0

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic. Votes: 0

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms. Votes: 0

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. Votes: 0

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. Votes: 0

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. Votes: 0

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation Votes: 0

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. Votes: 0

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. Votes: 0

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs. Votes: 0

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is. Votes: 0

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. Votes: 0

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Votes: 0

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... Votes: 0

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. Votes: 0

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans. Votes: 0

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. Votes: 0

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Votes: 0

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Votes: 0

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. Votes: 0

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. Votes: 0

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. Votes: 0

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. Votes: 0

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. Votes: 0

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. Votes: 0

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. Votes: 0

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. Votes: 0

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. Votes: 0

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read. Votes: 0

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Votes: 0

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. Votes: 0

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. Votes: 0

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. Votes: 0

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read." Votes: 0

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Votes: 0

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. Votes: 0

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. Votes: 0

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Votes: 0

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color. Votes: 0

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. Votes: 0

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. Votes: 0

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors. Votes: 0

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. Votes: 0

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today. Votes: 0

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. Votes: 0

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan. Votes: 0

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. Votes: 0

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills Votes: 0

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. Votes: 0

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. Votes: 0

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. Votes: 0

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. Votes: 0

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. Votes: 0

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. Votes: 0

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Votes: 0

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Votes: 0

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. Votes: 0

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Votes: 0

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. Votes: 0

...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. Votes: 0

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. Votes: 0

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. Votes: 0

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation Votes: 0

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. Votes: 0

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. Votes: 0

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. Votes: 0

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject Votes: 0

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. Votes: 0

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Votes: 0

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. Votes: 0

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. Votes: 0

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. Votes: 0

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other. Votes: 0

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. Votes: 0

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. Votes: 0

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. Votes: 0

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. Votes: 0

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. Votes: 0

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. Votes: 0

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. Votes: 0

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure. Votes: 0

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Votes: 0

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. Votes: 0

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process. Votes: 0

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it Votes: 0

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. Votes: 0

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion. Votes: 0

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. Votes: 0

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. Votes: 0

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! Votes: 0

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. Votes: 0

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. Votes: 0

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. Votes: 0

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. Votes: 0

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. Votes: 0

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic Votes: 0

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. Votes: 0

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. Votes: 0

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. Votes: 0

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher. Votes: 0

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. Votes: 0

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Votes: 0

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought. Votes: 0

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. Votes: 0

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. Votes: 0

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. Votes: 0

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. Votes: 0

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. Votes: 0

a preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... Votes: 0

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. Votes: 0

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. Votes: 0

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. Votes: 0

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. Votes: 0

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. Votes: 0

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. Votes: 0

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow. Votes: 0

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait! Votes: 0

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. Votes: 0

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals... Votes: 0

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. Votes: 0

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. Votes: 0

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types. Votes: 0

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is. Votes: 0

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. Votes: 0

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. Votes: 0

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it Votes: 0

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. Votes: 0

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. Votes: 0

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. Votes: 0

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Votes: 0

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. Votes: 0

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. Votes: 0

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. Votes: 0

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. Votes: 0

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. Votes: 0

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. Votes: 0

Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. Votes: 0

Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. Votes: 0

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. Votes: 0

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. Votes: 0

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. Votes: 0

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. Votes: 0

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. Votes: 0

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. Votes: 0

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out. Votes: 0

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. Votes: 0

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. Votes: 0

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. Votes: 0

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. Votes: 0

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. Votes: 0

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. Votes: 0

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. Votes: 0

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages. Votes: 0

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim. Votes: 0

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Votes: 0

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. Votes: 0

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Votes: 0

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Votes: 0

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. Votes: 0

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. Votes: 0

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. Votes: 0

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. Votes: 0

Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career. Votes: 0

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. Votes: 0

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. Votes: 0

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. Votes: 0

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. Votes: 0

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. Votes: 0

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste. Votes: 0

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. Votes: 0

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male. Votes: 0

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. Votes: 0

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle. Votes: 0

One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. Votes: 0

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. Votes: 0

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me. Votes: 0

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now. Votes: 0

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Votes: 0

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' Votes: 0

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. Votes: 0

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. Votes: 0

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. Votes: 0

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all. Votes: 0

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. Votes: 0

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. Votes: 0

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief. Votes: 0

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. Votes: 0

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. Votes: 0

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries. Votes: 0

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. Votes: 0

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. Votes: 0

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. Votes: 0

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. Votes: 0

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Votes: 0

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. Votes: 0

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. Votes: 0

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. Votes: 0

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. Votes: 0

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.' Votes: 0

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. Votes: 0

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. Votes: 0

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. Votes: 0

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. Votes: 0

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. Votes: 0

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. Votes: 0

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove." Votes: 0

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' Votes: 0

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised. Votes: 0

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. Votes: 0

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove. Votes: 0

I'm not club-able, you see. I don't like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I'd hate to join anything, however loosely. Votes: 0

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too. Votes: 0

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. Votes: 0

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent. Votes: 0

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. Votes: 0

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. Votes: 0

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. Votes: 0

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Votes: 0

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph. Votes: 0

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. Votes: 0

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. Votes: 0

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. Votes: 0

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Votes: 0

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. Votes: 0

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures. Votes: 0

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. Votes: 0

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. Votes: 0

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night. Votes: 0

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. Votes: 0

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. Votes: 0

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it. Votes: 0

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. Votes: 0

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years. Votes: 0

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. Votes: 0

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold. Votes: 0

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. Votes: 0

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. Votes: 0

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely. Votes: 0

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience. Votes: 0

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well. Votes: 0

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! Votes: 0

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. Votes: 0

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. Votes: 0

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly. Votes: 0

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Votes: 0

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong. Votes: 0

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. Votes: 0

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Votes: 0

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries. Votes: 0

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. Votes: 0

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. Votes: 0

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. Votes: 0

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. Votes: 0

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. Votes: 0

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. Votes: 0

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination. Votes: 0

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... Votes: 0

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself Votes: 0

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.' Votes: 0

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Votes: 0

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something. Votes: 0

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. Votes: 0

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. Votes: 0

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. Votes: 0

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. Votes: 0

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. Votes: 0

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. Votes: 0

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times. Votes: 0

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. Votes: 0

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. Votes: 0

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. Votes: 0

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts. Votes: 0

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup. Votes: 0

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. Votes: 0

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. Votes: 0

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. Votes: 0

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career. Votes: 0

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. Votes: 0

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive. Votes: 0

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. Votes: 0

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice. Votes: 0

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. Votes: 0

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. Votes: 0

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes. Votes: 0

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. Votes: 0

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy. Votes: 0

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word. Votes: 0

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. Votes: 0

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. Votes: 0

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well. Votes: 0

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have. Votes: 0

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. Votes: 0

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Votes: 0

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. Votes: 0

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Votes: 0

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Votes: 0

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms. Votes: 0

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. Votes: 0

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. Votes: 0

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. Votes: 0

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence. Votes: 0

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture. Votes: 0

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash" Votes: 0

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder. Votes: 0

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Votes: 0

Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked. Votes: 0

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. Votes: 0

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly. Votes: 0

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. Votes: 0

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins "“ The other kind don't matter. Votes: 0

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom. Votes: 0

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life. Votes: 0

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. Votes: 0

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. Votes: 0

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do. Votes: 0

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? Votes: 0

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Votes: 0

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings. Votes: 0

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives. Votes: 0

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have. Votes: 0

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. Votes: 0

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about. Votes: 0

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. Votes: 0

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science. Votes: 0

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level. Votes: 0

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic. Votes: 0

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Votes: 0

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit Votes: 0

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. Votes: 0

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'. Votes: 0

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft, small and sinking, and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers. Votes: 0

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages. Votes: 0

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote. Votes: 0

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. Votes: 0

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. Votes: 0

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. Votes: 0

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison Votes: 0

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. Votes: 0

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one. Votes: 0

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. Votes: 0

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. Votes: 0

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or fill in career blank - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect? Votes: 0

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. Votes: 0

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. Votes: 0

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. Votes: 0

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot. Votes: 0

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. Votes: 0

I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour. Votes: 0

I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal. Votes: 0

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day. Votes: 0