I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis 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
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.” — Marc Jampole Copy Share Image
“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really… — Atticus Finch 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 think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they… — Christopher Harris Copy Share Image
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to… — Lord Byron 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
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children’s hands are immeasurably more… — M.G. Harris Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom… — Michael David Lukas Copy Share Image
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“My literary references seem right, but no one around me is well read enough to correct any errors.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to… — George Orwell 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
