Literary World Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still…
— Sandra Cisneros
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The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others…
— Washington Irving
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The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
— Lawrence Block
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When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
— Susie Bright
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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
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"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
— Frederick Crews
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Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until…
— Stephen Colbert
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The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some…
— Clive James
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The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he…
— James Fallows
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
— Harold Bloom
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
— Jay McInerney
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the…
— Camilla Lackberg
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I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the…
— James Frey
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
— Fay Godwin
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two…
— Harold Bloom
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it…
— Jasper Fforde
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
— William Boyd
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
— Craig Brown
Who Wrote These Literary World Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Literary World Quotes as follows: