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I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition, — Jack Kerouac
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of… — Peter Medawar
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. — Peter Medawar
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products… — Juan Goytisolo
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a… — Robert Olen Butler
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an… — Abraham Verghese
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a… — Joseph Glanvill
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. — Gil J Wolman
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years — Colum McCann
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must… — James Agee
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief,… — Aberjhani
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. — Chris Patten
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a… — Edmund White
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... — Lawrence Block
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that… — Scott Turow
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world. — Susie Bright
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is… — Jerry Pournelle
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is… — Michael Ende
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe… — Adrian Mitchell
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier

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