Books Quote by Northrop Frye

I think we are affected so much by mythical stories and biblical stories, our society being based on the Bible - at least the…

— Dolph Lundgren

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

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

“The authors we classified as villains, detractors, and bad role models for our children are part of the educational curriculum. Freethinkers and the gutsy…

— Julia Ann Charpentier

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

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