“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 Copy Share Image
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“I sit on a foldaway chair at the lakeside, sipping hot cocoa and admiring the sunset behind distant clouds, pondering my next… — I.J. Sarfeh Copy Share Image
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they… — Christopher Harris Copy Share Image
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Do you want any breakfast, Sam?” my mom asks. I never eat breakfast at home, but my mom still asks me every… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
A Christmas Carol' is one of a few literary works that can be cited as a common cultural reference point, so its… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as… — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
