“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati There is no death for inspiration.” — Skylashtar Maryam Copy Share Image
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?” — G. F. Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“With the exception of Liam Murphy, the transition to 2254 was going well.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is… — Jenifer Mohammed Copy Share Image
“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
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