Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his… — Tom Folsom Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“What do you read?” Ismay asks. “Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a… — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency! — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“That literary is still based on beauty, does not know the reality and does not have fixed rules like scientific rules” — Ali Al-Tantawi Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“My literary references seem right, but no one around me is well read enough to correct any errors.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
