Literary Quotes · Page 7

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

— Kate Zambreno

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

— Joanne Kelly

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

“I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all.”

— Julian Barnes

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

— Siri Hustvedt

“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in…

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary…

— Will Self

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it…

— Emma Donoghue

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.”

— Mikhail Iossel

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary…

— Daniel Radcliffe

When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her…

— Karan Mahajan

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many…

— Corey Taylor

“The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning sun.…

— Cole Alpaugh

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and…

— Allan Gurganus

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable…

— Jeff Kinney

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert…

— Terry Eagleton

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild…

— Sarah MacLean

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's…

— Wole Soyinka

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre…

— Michael Chabon

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

— Irving Paul Lazar

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

— Nancy Horan

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

— Jennifer Egan

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

— Chad Harbach

“Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati There is no death for inspiration.”

— Skylashtar Maryam

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

— Edmund White

“With the exception of Liam Murphy, the transition to 2254 was going well.”

— Steven Decker

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

— Dan Jenkins

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

— Colum McCann

“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”

— D. Biswas

I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.

— Carol Drinkwater