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
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
My attitude is a result of your actions. So if you don't like my attitude, blame yourself. — Anonymous 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
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.” — Marc Jampole Copy Share Image
“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
“The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what… — Shane Carruth 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 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
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
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost.” — Gaito Gazdanov Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
