Literary Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

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.