I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from. — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write… — Colson Whitehead 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
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
The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
