Literary Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image ““I can't bear literary snobbery.”” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Literary Literature Prejudice Snobbery
“We're quick to think of people as snobs, little realizing that perhaps they suffer from the same insecurities that we do.” — Ken Puddicombe Copy Share Image
“She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.” — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“never forget a snob is a person utterly lacking in good taste.” — Richard C. Morais Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish Copy Share Image
“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Bookishness, an unfortunate trait for a girl, especially one who is not nice to look at.” — Claire Holden Rothman Copy Share Image
“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan 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
