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- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. — Charles Baudelaire
- Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. — Erma Bombeck
- There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being… — Alain de Botton
- It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to… — William S. Burroughs
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
- God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage
- So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron
- I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me… — Sherman Alexie
- There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle
- All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. — John Cheever