I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film. — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of… — Zakaria Tamer Copy Share Image
“A literary work ... is, during the time one reads it, a friend with whom one has chosen to spend one's time.… — Wayne Booth 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
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
