I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But” — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.” — David Demchuk Copy Share Image
Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. — Henry James Copy Share Image
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.” — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and… — Cécile David-Weill Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton 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
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. — James Payn Copy Share Image
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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