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I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. — Shelley Berman
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. — Paul Ricoeur
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder… — George Bernard Shaw
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as… — Theodora Goss
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things,… — Ferdinand Christian Baur
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the… — Ferdinand Christian Baur
My literary success meant nothing to me — Taylor Caldwell
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest… — Kealan Patrick Burke
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.… a tour de… — Noah Richler
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Unknown Author
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. — Yann Martel
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position… — Edward Bok
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,… — Roxane Gay
Verbose is not a synonym for literary. — Constance Hale
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting… — William Bernhardt
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life… — Ayn Rand
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Unknown Author
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is… — Unknown Author
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of… — Bruno Bettelheim
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my… — Johannes V. Jensen

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