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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. (Quote by - Paul de Man)
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. (Quote by - Andrzej Wajda)
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. (Quote by - Lafcadio Hearn)
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries. (Quote by - Stephen King)
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. (Quote by - Lafcadio Hearn)
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. (Quote by - Juan Goytisolo)
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. (Quote by - Dan Simmons)
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! (Quote by - Virgil)
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. (Quote by - Irvine Welsh)
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. (Quote by - James Payn)
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' (Quote by - Samuel Butler)