Literary Quotes · Page 4

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

— Dana Reeve

It's hard to judge literary merit.

— Henry Rollins

My literary success meant nothing to me

— Taylor Caldwell

“Teacher,” I said. “Can you feel love?”

— Steven Decker

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

— Nick Hornby

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

— Constance Hale

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

— Henry Rollins

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

“Carry out your literary dream no matter how unlikely it may seem.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

“What do you mean to do?' 'Make literary history, I guess.”

— Paula McLain

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

— Philip Pullman

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

Yes, Atticus Finch is a literary creation, but he stands for something real and enduring.

— Jamelle Bouie

“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.”

— Karel Čapek

“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?”

— G. F. Smith

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as…

— Susan Cheever

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

— Robert Christgau

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

— Muriel Spark

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn…

— Roman Payne

“Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children’s hands are immeasurably more…

— M.G. Harris

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for…

— Daniel Handler

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary…

— Vikram Seth

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from…

— Ben Dolnick

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy…

— Marilyn Hacker

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit…

— George Ripley

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity…

— Robert Hall

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,…

— Lev Grossman

“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and…

— Cécile David-Weill

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,…

— Edgar Fawcett

“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was…

— Roman Payne

“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time,…

— Richard Ford

“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the…

— Claudia Clark

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas…

— Henry Rollins

“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next…

— Carmen Maria Machado

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle