Beauty Quote by Ali Al-Tantawi

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

“Everything in the universe conforms to certain simple scientific rules that have been repeated over billions of years. While this can be awe-inspiring, it…

— Atheist Republic

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

— Eric Rohmer

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…

— Glen Duncan

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result…

— Jonathan Miller

“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery…

— Raymond Federman

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

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

— Harold Bloom

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like…

— Julia Holter

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

— Claire Messud