Literary Quotes

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.

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.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.