Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Not long after I started posting the first 'Nimona' pages online, a literary agent reached out to me, and I ended up… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant. — Larry Wilcox Copy Share Image
I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will… — David Demchuk Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“If publishers are here, I've got a feeling they will agree with whatever I say because the publishing houses are packed full… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Not just Negroponte, who doesn't like to read, but even Birkerts, who thinks that history is ending, underestimates the instability of society… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
“One night, we workers formed a circle around the tallow candle as it burned, allowing each other to bond by holding hands.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The literary female, unsatisfied, agitated, empty inher heart and belly, always listening with pained curiosityto the imperative which whispers out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
