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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play… — Eric Partridge
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — Unknown Author
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands… — Desiderius Erasmus
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and… — Perry Anderson
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about… — Victor LaValle
Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has… — Lorin Stein
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are… — Scott McClanahan
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. — Colin Firth
I have been the creative literary mind of the century. — Gertrude Stein
There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that… — George Lucas
I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me –… — Lily Collins
Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be… — Robert Stack
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland… — John Derbyshire
Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In the ‘Everyone Deserves… — Unknown Author
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas

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