'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I sit on a foldaway chair at the lakeside, sipping hot cocoa and admiring the sunset behind distant clouds, pondering my next… — I.J. Sarfeh Copy Share Image
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Standing still, I watched the world heave and swirl around me in the air. The sandy earth of the beach was making… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as… — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
