Literary Quotes · Page 7

“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ”

— Douglas Weissman

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

— Rick Moody

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix…

— Will Self

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is…

— Jonathan Ames

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

— Imelda Staunton

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

— Michael Korda

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at…

— Oscar Wilde

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in…

— W. H. Auden

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full…

— Edward Einhorn

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his…

— Tom Folsom

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the…

— William Nicholson

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it…

— Henry James

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the…

— Claire Tomalin

“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human…

— Pär Lagerkvist

Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her…

— Sarah Weinman

“You’re a literary person. If you ask me, there are passages in the Bible that a lover of literature has to appreciate,…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.…

— Sergey Brin

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

— P. D. James

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

— Dan Simmons

“So many Jonathans . A plague of literary Jonathans .”

— Jonathan Franzen

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

— Harold Bloom

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

— Lisa See

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

“I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all.”

— Julian Barnes

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

— Joanne Kelly

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

— Nancy Horan