Literary Quotes · Page 5

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.

— Carol Drinkwater

“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”

— D. Biswas

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

— Janette Turner Hospital

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

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

— Steven Decker

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

— Edmund White

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.

— Jacqueline Carey

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

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary…

— Karan Mahajan

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to…

— Glen Duncan

“Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is…

— Jenifer Mohammed

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at…

— J. Rose Black

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

— Aberjhani

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level…

— Dan Brown

Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…

— Susan Hill

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the…

— William Nicholson

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an…

— Jeff Kinney

“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,…

— Salman Rushdie

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary…

— Joanne Harris

“What do you read?” Ismay asks. “Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight…

— Martin Amis

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take…

— Per Petterson

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

— Chad Harbach

“Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati There is no death for inspiration.”

— Skylashtar Maryam

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

— Nancy Horan

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

— Joanne Kelly

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

“I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all.”

— Julian Barnes

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

— Stephen King

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

— Simon Mawer

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

— Siri Hustvedt

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine