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With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others… — Daniel B. Wallace
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something… — Christopher Nolan
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out… — Harold Bloom
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily… — Harold Bloom
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of… — J M Coetzee
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search… — Anthony Bourdain
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every… — Edward Abbey
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will… — Edward Abbey
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern… — Edward Abbey
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my… — E. L. James
Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic. — Wallace Stevens
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles,… — Bridget Riley
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
Suggestion is a literary strategy. — Samuel R. Delany

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