Literary Quotes
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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)
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
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)
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. (Quote by - George Saintsbury)
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. (Quote by - Ken Follett)
Excessive literary production is a social offense. (Quote by - George Eliot)
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. (Quote by - Christopher Lehmann)
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. (Quote by - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen)
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. (Quote by - Mark Haddon)
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. (Quote by - Kevin Ayers)
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. (Quote by - Edmund White)
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. (Quote by - Ferdinand Christian Baur)
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world. (Quote by - James Cameron)
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. (Quote by - Sandra Cisneros)
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. (Quote by - Joyce Maynard)
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. (Quote by - James Lee Burke)
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. (Quote by - Robert Hall)
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. (Quote by - Arna Bontemps)
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. (Quote by - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen)
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. (Quote by - Scott Turow)
They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. (Quote by - Stefan Kanfer)
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. (Quote by - Horace)
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. (Quote by - George Eliot )
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. (Quote by - Paul Ricoeur)
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)
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. (Quote by - Patrick White)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. (Quote by - John Barton)
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. (Quote by - Mickey Spillane)
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. (Quote by - Kenneth Koch)
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. (Quote by - Lion Feuchtwanger)
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. (Quote by - Mario Vargas Llosa)
'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.' (Quote by - Francois Voltaire)
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. (Quote by - Lascelles Abercrombie)
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. (Quote by - Mary A. Ward)
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. (Quote by - Mario Vargas Llosa)
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
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. (Quote by - Norman Spinrad)
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. (Quote by - Shelley Berman)
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. (Quote by - Richard Russo)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Laurence Housman)
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. (Quote by - William Joyce)
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. (Quote by - William Moulton Marston)
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. (Quote by - James Payn)
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
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! (Quote by - Brian Lumley)
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. (Quote by - Anne Stevenson)
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. (Quote by - Robert Delaunay)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. (Quote by - Moses Hadas)
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. (Quote by - J. M. Coetzee )
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. (Quote by - Manuel Puig)
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent. (Quote by - Maria Lenhart)
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view. (Quote by - Lafcadio Hearn)
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. (Quote by - John Gregory Dunne)
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. (Quote by - Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. (Quote by - Slobodan Milosevic)
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. (Quote by - Amy Tan)
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)
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. (Quote by - Philip Schaff)
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. (Quote by - Edward Bok )
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. (Quote by - Salvatore Quasimodo)
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. (Quote by - Aaron Copland)
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. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
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. (Quote by - John Wilson)
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency! (Quote by - Richard Curtis)
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. (Quote by - Mary A. Ward)
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. (Quote by - Vaclav Klaus)
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. (Quote by - Fay Godwin)
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby )
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. (Quote by - Mark Haddon)
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. (Quote by - Donna Tartt)
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. (Quote by - Troy Perry)
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. (Quote by - John Barton)
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. (Quote by - A. E. van Vogt)
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation. (Quote by - Trevor Dunn)
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. (Quote by - Jim Jarmusch)
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye. (Quote by - William Blake)
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. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
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. (Quote by - Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. (Quote by - George Ripley)
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. (Quote by - Kazuo Ishiguro)
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. (Quote by - Edward Carpenter)
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. (Quote by - Kevin Ayers)
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. (Quote by - Sue Grafton)
My literary success meant nothing to me. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. (Quote by - Taylor Hackford)
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. (Quote by - Will Eisner)
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. (Quote by - Jonathan Coe)
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. (Quote by - Simon Callow)
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. (Quote by - Joe Klein)
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All autobiography is self-indulgent. (Quote by - Daphne Du Maurier)
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. (Quote by - Anne Stevenson)
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher. (Quote by - Richard Curtis)
Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. (Quote by - Virgil)
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. (Quote by - James Payn)
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. (Quote by - Stendhal)
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. (Quote by - Louis Auchincloss)
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. (Quote by - Andrew Vachss)
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. (Quote by - Leon Edel)
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. (Quote by - Rick Moody)
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. (Quote by - Phillip Adams)
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. (Quote by - Tony Conrad)
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. (Quote by - Theodore Sturgeon)
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. (Quote by - Kazuo Ishiguro)
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. (Quote by - Adrian Mitchell)
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. (Quote by - John LeCarre)
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. (Quote by - Rick Moody)
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. (Quote by - Scott Turow)
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. (Quote by - Colin Firth)
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. (Quote by - Laura Hillenbrand)
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. (Quote by - George Saunders)
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. (Quote by - Jonathan Carroll )
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. (Quote by - Tom Glazer)
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. (Quote by - David Antin)
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. (Quote by - V. S. Naipaul)
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. (Quote by - Amy Tan)
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. (Quote by - John Cheever)
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
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. (Quote by - Henry James)
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. (Quote by - Kathy Acker)
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
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. (Quote by - Jerry Pournelle)
But it's not just a game of finding literary references. (Quote by - Dan Simmons)
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. (Quote by - Ted Rall)
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. (Quote by - Leonard Baskin)
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. (Quote by - Rick Moody)
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. (Quote by - Howard Mumford Jones)
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
There can be no literary equivalent to truth. (Quote by - Laura Riding)
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. (Quote by - Sara Paretsky)
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. (Quote by - Jeffery Deaver)
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. (Quote by - Michael Shermer)
