Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

I'm a fan of X-men.

will.i.am

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Girl in the Dark

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three in the bush.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Learn how to read by taking small sips first. Drink my watery literary nipples.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Lev Grossman

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Sara Paretsky

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Mary Sage Nguyen

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Naguib Mahfouz

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul Louis Couchoud

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul de Man

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Richard Curtis

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Sue Grafton

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Tony Conrad

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Tibor Fischer

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Ted Rall