Literary Quotes · Page 8

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

— Frank Moore Colby

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

— Janette Turner Hospital

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

— Charles Bukowski

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”

— Richard Dawkins

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

— Ambrose Bierce

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to…

— Lord Byron

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create…

— Stephen Mangan

“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.”

— Veronika Carnaby

“I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they…

— Christopher Harris

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying…

— James Wolcott

Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and…

— Rituparna Sengupta

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to…

— Rick Yancey

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a…

— China Mieville

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and…

— Justin Cronin

To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly…

— Graydon Carter

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one…

— Siri Hustvedt

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and…

— Rob Thomas

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...…

— Woodrow Wilson

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring…

— Ben Dolnick

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ”

— Douglas Weissman

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

— Wallace Stevens

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

— Rick Moody

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

— George Eliot

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.”

— David Demchuk

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

— Lawrence Osborne

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney