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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today. — Claire Messud
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I… — Susan Hill
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the… — Noam Chomsky
I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans. — Janet Evanovich
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — Guy de Maupassant
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice. — Paule Marshall
I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely. — Jeanette Winterson
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year… — Wallace Thurman
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I… — Aldous Huxley
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. — Nelson Algren
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing...… — Nelson Algren
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention… — Unknown Author
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was… — Rod Serling
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was… — Johannes V. Jensen
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale… — Wilkie Collins
When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and… — Rick Bragg
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley

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