Books Quote by Julia Ann Charpentier

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this…

— Ken Liu

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

— Richard Flanagan

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are…

— Harold Bloom

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition.…

— Colson Whitehead

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

— Ian Mcewan

Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. "Then”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…

— Helen Vendler

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to…

— George Brandis

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the…

— Xiaolu Guo