Literary World Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — Harold Bloom
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. — Fay Godwin
• 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
• 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
• In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd
• 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:

• 2 Literary World Quotes by Harold Bloom
• 1 Literary World Quote by Sandra Cisneros
• 1 Literary World Quote by Washington Irving
• 1 Literary World Quote by Lawrence Block
• 1 Literary World Quote by Susie Bright
• 1 Literary World Quote by Jules de Goncourt
• 1 Literary World Quote by Frederick Crews
• 1 Literary World Quote by Stephen Colbert
• 1 Literary World Quote by Clive James
• 1 Literary World Quote by James Fallows
• 1 Literary World Quote by Jay McInerney
• 1 Literary World Quote by Camilla Lackberg
• 1 Literary World Quote by James Frey
• 1 Literary World Quote by Fay Godwin
• 1 Literary World Quote by Jasper Fforde
• 1 Literary World Quote by William Boyd
• 1 Literary World Quote by Craig Brown