'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

— Wole Soyinka

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be…

— Peter Weir

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to…

— Franz Kafka

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible…

— Stendhal

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive…

— Philip Kitcher

“A literary work ... is, during the time one reads it, a friend with whom one has chosen to spend one's time. The question…

— Wayne Booth

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

— Milan Kundera

I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends…

— Daniel Mendelsohn