Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.

New Zealander

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish

Dead men by mass production––in one country after another––month after month and year after year. Dead men in winter and dead men in summer. Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinit...

Ernie Pyle

I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer li...

Sevyn Streeter

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Leonard Baskin

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Nelson Algren

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Nelson Algren

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

Will Self

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Sigmar Gabriel

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

James Payn

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Jerry Pournelle

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

Scott Turow

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

Blake Bailey

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes