Form Quote by P. D. James

Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in…

— Ben Lerner

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product,…

— Evan Daugherty

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a…

— Ayad Akhtar

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

— Charles Bukowski

There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other…

— Marco Roth

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and…

— William Plomer

“What Kant took to be the necessary schemata of reality,' says a modern Freudian, 'are really only the necessary schemata of repression.' And an…

— Frank Kermode

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

— Sue Grafton