I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments… — Kristin Maddock Copy Share Image
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.” — David Demchuk Copy Share Image
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is… — Jenifer Mohammed 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
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“One night, we workers formed a circle around the tallow candle as it burned, allowing each other to bond by holding hands.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
