Literary Quotes · Page 8

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

— Irving Paul Lazar

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.

— Jason Reynolds

“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?”

— Cole Alpaugh

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

— A. B. Yehoshua

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

— Kate Zambreno

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling…

— Roman Payne

“Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments…

— Kristin Maddock

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that…

— Evan Daugherty

With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested…

— D. B. Sweeney

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

— Erica Jong

Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could…

— Lynne Ramsay

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.

— Jacqueline Carey

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his…

— Herbert Spencer

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out…

— Jennifer Egan

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such…

— E. F. Benson

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They…

— Anne Fadiman

“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name…

— Douglas Weissman

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great…

— James Gleick

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist…

— Jess Walter

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

— Wole Soyinka

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush

“there’s no such thing as bad publicity in the literary world.”

— Mark Pryor

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

— Stephen King

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

— Simon Mawer

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

— Siri Hustvedt

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

— Janette Turner Hospital

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

— Frank Moore Colby

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.

— Carol Drinkwater

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

— Colum McCann

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

— Dan Jenkins

“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”

— D. Biswas

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

— Charles Bukowski