I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“And in a land accustomed to so much anguish, Chase tried to be careful with words. His soccer moms began assigning nicknames… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time,… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
