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Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. — Laurence Housman
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different… — Bret Lott
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply… — Joyce Maynard
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused… — Steve Almond
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but,… — Neil Cross
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the… — Carrie P Snow
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have… — Kris Radish
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back… — Joe Klein
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller… — William Saroyan
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. — Arna Bontemps
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions… — Robertson Davies
A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira.… — Christopher Hitchens
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the… — Walter Pater
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel… — Thom Gunn
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or… — James Ensor
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. — Mark Twain
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff… — Mark Twain
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling,… — Lee Gutkind
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version… — Laura Hillenbrand

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