My Literary Quotes
31 My Literary quotes by 26 unique authors
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my…
— E. L. James
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I…
— Susan Hill
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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
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My literary success meant nothing to me
— Taylor Caldwell
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die…
— Harold Brodkey
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
— Scott Turow
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
— Robert Harris
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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
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
— Will Self
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My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill…
— Steven Wright
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
— Ashwin Sanghi
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an…
— John Kennedy Toole
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You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist…
— John Kennedy Toole
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...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
— John Kennedy Toole
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I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t…
— Robert W. Service
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In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them…
— Fernando Pessoa
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a…
— David Mitchell
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I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
— George Orwell
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody…
— Mark Twain
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I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
— Scott Turow
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