Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story. — Joanne Kelly Copy Share Image
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre. — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
