An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary… — Judith Skelton-Grant Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition… — Marleen S. Barr Copy Share Image
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
