There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out… — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and… — Nathan Bransford literary agent Copy Share Image
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Standing still, I watched the world heave and swirl around me in the air. The sandy earth of the beach was making… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.” — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“It was late when father and the Duke tracked me down feigning surprise that I was in the usual place every time… — Shattered Roses E L Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
