Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

Yann Martel

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

Joy Fielding

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Markus Zusak

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Ashwin Sanghi

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

F. Sionil Jose

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Jay McInerney

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary Augusta Ward

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Robert Morgan

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Barbara Kingsolver

I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.

Fierce Dolan

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

Carmen Agra Deedy

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Clifford Geertz

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

John Burdett

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

Evan Daugherty

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

Bill James

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

George Saunders

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Harold Bloom

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Hilaire Belloc