I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Standing still, I watched the world heave and swirl around me in the air. The sandy earth of the beach was making… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Standing under the shelter of a cedar tree, I stared at the fire crackling as it burned through the fallen logs and… — Susan L. Marshall 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
A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will… — David Demchuk Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” — Pip Williams 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
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“In a world of watered-down bestsellers and formula novels, Hitching to Nirvana eases back just enough to show the blade which cuts… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
