Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism.

The Screwtape Letters

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the cas...

James Payn

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

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Lost in a Good Book

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

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

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers

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

...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