Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mason Cooley

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Mason Cooley

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Ken Follett

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

Nina Jacobson

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Rick Moody

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Janette Turner Hospital

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Ronald Reagan

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men be such giants as Plato and Aristotle? Does truth become more true because Aristotle blesses it, or does it become error because Plato curses it? ...

Athens and Jerusalem

I know they are all honest men, but my cloak is nowhere to be found.

Spanish

As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when the sources provided by folklore could safely be used as literary material. It is almost a necessity, ...

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien

I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them—and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them, over and over. If I could have thought the words...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It's a real lightning bolt, this Science of Phrenology. I've found out more in the last three days than I knew in my whole life before. Mrs. Guilbert has always been a nasty one, but now I know that she can't help it—she's got a big pit in her Bene...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generati...

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between