Literary Quotes
789 quotes by 605 authors
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
— Erma Bombeck
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms…
— Alain de Botton
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It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other…
— William S. Burroughs
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
— Samuel Butler
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made…
— Nicolas Cage
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world…
— James Cameron
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
— Sherman Alexie
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
— Thomas Carlyle
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
— John Cheever
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
— Sandra Cisneros
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still…
— Sandra Cisneros
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I…
— Aberjhani
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I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly…
— Kaari Utrio
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders…
— Aberjhani
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
— Aberjhani
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind…
— Edward Abbey
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