Events Quote by Mary Ruefle

“The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry…

— Matthew Arnold

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.…

— Larry Niven

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

— Donald Hall

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

— Ellen Glasgow

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature…

— Samuel Johnson

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the…

— Gustave Flaubert

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I…

— Ted Alexandro

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an…

— Charles J. Shields

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .…

— Robert Dessaix

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television,…

— Rod Serling

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because…

— Jeanette Winterson

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud