Literary History Quotes

11 Literary History quotes by 11 unique authors

• In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition… — James Russell Lowell
• Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
• 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
• 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
• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
• You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay
• The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write)… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine
• Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever… — David Cronenberg
• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet,… — Deb Caletti

Who Wrote These Literary History Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Literary History Quotes as follows:

• 1 Literary History Quote by William Landay
• 1 Literary History Quote by Tillie Olsen
• 1 Literary History Quote by Theodora Goss
• 1 Literary History Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Literary History Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset
• 1 Literary History Quote by James Russell Lowell
• 1 Literary History Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Literary History Quote by George Saintsbury
• 1 Literary History Quote by Elif Batuman
• 1 Literary History Quote by Deb Caletti
• 1 Literary History Quote by David Cronenberg