Literary Quotes · Page 6

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

— Anonymous

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

“What do you mean to do?' 'Make literary history, I guess.”

— Paula McLain

“Carry out your literary dream no matter how unlikely it may seem.”

— Terry a O'Neal

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

Yes, Atticus Finch is a literary creation, but he stands for something real and enduring.

— Jamelle Bouie

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much…

— Ellen Potter

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

— Frank Moore Colby

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate…

— Lynn Coady

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish…

— Robert Greene

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right…

— F. Sionil Jose

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

— Aberjhani

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert…

— Terry Eagleton

“What do you read?” Ismay asks. “Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then…

— Gabrielle Zevin

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary…

— Joanne Harris

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm…

— Corey Taylor

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,…

— Salman Rushdie

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an…

— Jeff Kinney

Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…

— Susan Hill

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas…

— Henry Rollins

“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next…

— Carmen Maria Machado

“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was…

— Roman Payne

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,…

— Edgar Fawcett

“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.”

— Karel Čapek

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

— Philip Pullman

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

— George Eliot

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

— Lawrence Osborne

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.”

— David Demchuk

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

— Wallace Stevens

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud