Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
“593 Still (very still), at the heart of “literary culture” is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“ “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A Christmas Carol' is one of a few literary works that can be cited as a common cultural reference point, so its… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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