Quotes of: Literary Keyword

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

Dave Sim

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

The Girls of Slender Means

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

Selected Literary Essays

The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.

Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition ...

Life

Everything I write is a rebound.

Marginally Fictitious: A Literary Mixtape

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

The Literary Cyclist: Great Bicycling Scenes in Literature

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Andrea Hirata

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Khaled Hosseini

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d a...

Neil Cross

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works

Poetry is never abandon it is only remixed.

The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America

Informative and understandable, even for non-techies like me...

Sol English Writing in Mexico: A Literary Magazine

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Life

I feel the fluttering of dragonflies—summer creatures that have no use for words.

Emerge Literary Journal

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Manuel Puig

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Jose Saramago

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Literary Remains, Vol. 1

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Dennis Lehane