A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.'… — Michael Palmer Copy Share Image
“You don't have to VENERATE Hercule Poirot, Ms. Christie, but he didn't deserve to be VILIFIED , either!” — Johanna Oznowicz Copy Share Image
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“You’re a literary person. If you ask me, there are passages in the Bible that a lover of literature has to appreciate,… — Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Copy Share Image
“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers. — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.” — Kelly Luce Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I go to book stores to see if they have any miss prints on sale. I hate to read but I love… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
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