Literary devices Quote by Mariam Eldoma

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is…

— Katherine Anne Porter

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the…

— Terry Eagleton

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

— Aberjhani

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

— Elif Batuman

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary…

— Edward St Aubyn

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy