“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend 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
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux 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
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have… — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
“Stepping forward, Girl stares out the doorway, into the sun. “I used to tread the world freely in Mira,” she smiles gently.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I go to book stores to see if they have any miss prints on sale. I hate to read but I love… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. — Raymond Carver 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
“Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency! — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“That literary is still based on beauty, does not know the reality and does not have fixed rules like scientific rules” — Ali Al-Tantawi Copy Share Image
