Literary Quote by Michael Dirda Download Open image “I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.” — Michael Dirda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Literary Nothing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
