Literary Quotes · Page 12

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at…

— Richard Dawkins

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary…

— Tony Harrison

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

— Lord Byron

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

— Chad Harbach

“With the exception of Liam Murphy, the transition to 2254 was going well.”

— Steven Decker

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

“When I was eight years old, I was abducted from a fast food restaurant by a man who took me, in all…

— Michael Fiegel

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery…

— Chris Ware

“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was…

— J. Rose Black

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out…

— Philipp Meyer

“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which…

— T.S. Eliot

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

— James Payn

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

— Diane Setterfield

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,…

— Robert Gottlieb

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary…

— Katherine Ryan

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks

“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales.…

— Anita Nair

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice…

— Sally Rooney

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,…

— John Banville

'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

“Don't stop aspiring. Just learn to duck. . .”

— Leif Herrgesell

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

— Heather Mac Donald

“So many Jonathans . A plague of literary Jonathans .”

— Jonathan Franzen

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney