There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
I played God today And it was fun! I made animals that men had never seen So they would stop and scratch their heads Instead of scowling. I made words that men had never heard So they would stop and stare at me Instead of running. And I made love tha...
Maybe there are just some men like that in the world, I thought. Men who have to be in charge, who have to punish those who awaken feelings in them which they cannot control. Men who will lure you with tenderness till you believe that you are safe th...
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pai...
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already...
