I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary… — Judith Skelton-Grant Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that cruel girl was right? I should be a good girl, and my friend will be fine. I am too dramatic,… — Bibiana Krall Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever before Stoney came back to the surface. Most of… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“Kata-kata adalah pedang paling tajam, paling menikam. Words are the sharpest sword, the most stabbed.” — Skylashtar Maryam Copy Share Image
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
