“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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So… — Tom Robbins 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
“Shit, man, if you see a dog scratching at the dirt trying to dig something up, walk away real fast,” he said,… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“593 Still (very still), at the heart of “literary culture” is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish 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 don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate… — Lynn Coady 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
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot… — Scott Turow 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
“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest. — Rebecca Front 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
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
“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever before Stoney came back to the surface. Most of… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
