Literary Quotes · Page 3

It's hard to judge literary merit.

— Henry Rollins

I have no literary fears.

— Carlos Fuentes

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

“A literary fetish is the new black”

— Danielle Ganek

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

— Nick Hornby

“Teacher,” I said. “Can you feel love?”

— Steven Decker

My literary success meant nothing to me

— Taylor Caldwell

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

“Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.”

— David Demchuk

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

— Jonathan Coe

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom…

— Michael David Lukas

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you…

— Kevin Ayers

“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

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

— Muriel Spark

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

— Robert Christgau

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really…

— Kathy Acker

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

— William Boyd

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy…

— Marilyn Hacker

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is…

— Sebastian Faulks

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the…

— Kevin Ayers

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind…

— J. K. Rowling

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my…

— Harold E. Varmus

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more…

— Vikas Swarup

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was…

— Roman Payne

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and…

— Cécile David-Weill

“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold…

— Lev Grossman

“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

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless…

— Margaret Atwood

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

— Ian Mcewan