Literary Quotes · Page 6

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

— Lisa See

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

— Harold Bloom

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.”

— David Demchuk

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

— Lawrence Osborne

“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was…

— J. Rose Black

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called…

— Tony Conrad

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much…

— Ellen Potter

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many…

— Amish Tripathi

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great…

— Nick Hornby

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

— Heinrich Heine

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

— Henry James

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

— Larry Wilcox

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out…

— Jennifer Egan

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They…

— Anne Fadiman

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great…

— James Gleick

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name…

— Douglas Weissman

“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human…

— Pär Lagerkvist

Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her…

— Sarah Weinman

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So…

— Tom Robbins

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by…

— Jose Saramago

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

— Wallace Stevens

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary…

— Tony Harrison

“Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will…

— David Demchuk

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in…

— W. H. Auden

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at…

— Oscar Wilde

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

— Imelda Staunton