Literary Quotes · Page 3

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

— Samuel R. Delany

“Teacher,” I said. “Can you feel love?”

— Steven Decker

My literary success meant nothing to me

— Taylor Caldwell

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

— Henry Rollins

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

— Constance Hale

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

— Nick Hornby

I have no literary fears.

— Carlos Fuentes

“A literary fetish is the new black”

— Danielle Ganek

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

— Manuel Puig

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

— Mason Cooley

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

— Bill James

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

— Robert Harris

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

— Tina Brown

Literary devices are used in everything you do, but more importantly in what you say.

— Mariam Eldoma

“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.”

— Pip Williams

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

— Richard Flanagan

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to…

— Rick Yancey

Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and…

— Rituparna Sengupta

“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever before Stoney came back to the surface. Most of…

— Cole Alpaugh

“Kata-kata adalah pedang paling tajam, paling menikam. Words are the sharpest sword, the most stabbed.”

— Skylashtar Maryam

I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way,…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which…

— Ron Carlson

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects…

— Robert Harris

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So…

— Tom Robbins

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by…

— Jose Saramago

“Shit, man, if you see a dog scratching at the dirt trying to dig something up, walk away real fast,” he said,…

— Cole Alpaugh

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system…

— Jasper Fforde

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what…

— Shane Carruth

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into…

— Pat Conroy

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and…

— Allan Gurganus

“The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning sun.…

— Cole Alpaugh

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what…

— Cora Carmack

“I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I…

— Marcus Speh

If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly…

— Lorrie Moore

“In a world of watered-down bestsellers and formula novels, Hitching to Nirvana eases back just enough to show the blade which cuts…

— CAConrad

Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits…

— Lee Klein

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which…

— T.S. Eliot

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