“That literary is still based on beauty, does not know the reality and does not have fixed rules like scientific rules” — Ali Al-Tantawi Copy Share Image
In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what… — Shane Carruth 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
I go to book stores to see if they have any miss prints on sale. I hate to read but I love… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
'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
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
