I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some…

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of…

— M.C. Beaton

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

— Joseph Brodsky

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to…

— Matt Haig

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

— Sharon M. Draper

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

— Harold Bloom

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like…

— Julia Holter

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

— Claire Messud

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had…

— Steven Decker

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton