Literary Work Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst… — Marcel Proust
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was… — Johannes V. Jensen
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
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
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… — Zakaria Tamer
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
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… — Andrei Tarkovsky
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. — Ambrose Bierce
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one… — Jean de la Bruyere
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to… — Mark Helprin
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed… — Jose Saramago
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to… — Stendhal
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I donâ€™t know. Likewise, I donâ€™t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. — Andrea Hirata
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. — Wole Soyinka

Who Wrote These Literary Work Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Literary Work Quotes as follows: