Quotes on Literary

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

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.

Author: Harold Bloom

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

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.

Author: Harold Brodkey

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

Author: Jonathan Coe

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

Author: Mason Cooley

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

Author: Richard Curtis

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

Author: Richard Curtis

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

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Author: George Eliot

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.

Author: Lion Feuchtwanger

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

Author: Colin Firth

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

Author: Ken Follett

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

Author: Fay Godwin

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.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

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

Author: Stephen King

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!

Author: Brian Lumley

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

Author: Paul Man

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Author: Rick Moody

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.

Author: Jerry Pournelle

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.

Author: Marcel Proust

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.

Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

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

Author: Ted Rall

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

Author: Jose Saramago

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

Author: Dan Simmons

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

Author: Gertrude Stein

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

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

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.

Author: Edmund White

In a world full of paper, be someone's favorite book

Author: Emily Rodriguez

Nourish your mind with curiosity; feed your soul with imagination.

Author: Harper Lee

Words have the power to create worlds that never existed, shaping the reality we live in.

Author: Sophia Morris

Savor every moment like it's the last page of your favorite book.

Author: Harper Mitchell

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into impossibly.

Author: Arthur Clarke

The greatest stories are the ones we live through, not just the ones we read about

Author: Emily Carr

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Author: Lisa See

Quotes on Literary

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

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

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

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.

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

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.

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

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

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

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

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

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In a world full of paper, be someone's favorite book

Nourish your mind with curiosity; feed your soul with imagination.

Words have the power to create worlds that never existed, shaping the reality we live in.

Savor every moment like it's the last page of your favorite book.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into impossibly.

The greatest stories are the ones we live through, not just the ones we read about

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.