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In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has… — Paul Elie
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. — Brian Reynolds
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no… — Thomas L. Thompson
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. — Robert McKee
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of… — Lafcadio Hearn
A literary achievement of the highest order. — David Guterson
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — A. N. Wilson
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. — Louisa May Alcott
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,… — Bertrand Russell
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. — John Keats
If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;… — Edith Wharton
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes… — Harold Bloom
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until… — Stephen Colbert
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that… — Lorrie Moore
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die… — Harold Brodkey
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step… — John Updike

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