Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Russell Smith

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Nicolas Cage

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

Daniel Radcliffe

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

William Landay

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...

Christopher Dawson

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

Simon Callow

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

Catherine Jinks

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Horace

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Imelda Staunton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Eleanor Catton

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Howard Barker

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Colin Wilson

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

Albert Murray

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Marilyn Hacker

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Nancy Pearcey

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Bret Easton Ellis

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Bess Streeter Aldrich