“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.” — David Demchuk Copy Share Image
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James Copy Share Image
“And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost.” — Gaito Gazdanov Copy Share Image
My attitude is a result of your actions. So if you don't like my attitude, blame yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments… — Kristin Maddock Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really… — Atticus Finch Copy Share Image
Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“One night, we workers formed a circle around the tallow candle as it burned, allowing each other to bond by holding hands.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The literary female, unsatisfied, agitated, empty inher heart and belly, always listening with pained curiosityto the imperative which whispers out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“If publishers are here, I've got a feeling they will agree with whatever I say because the publishing houses are packed full… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Literary devices are used in everything you do, but more importantly in what you say. — Mariam Eldoma Copy Share Image
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” — Pip Williams Copy Share Image
I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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