Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has ...

Swann's Way

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Literary Remains, Vol. 1

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Dennis Lehane

I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary f...

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

The Art of Literary Research

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics)

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

Walking a Literary Labryinth

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

John Grisham

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.

Edith Wharton

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

Dubravka Ugrešić

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little m...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a for his actions.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

Taylor Hackford

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

Neil Cross

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Kathy Acker

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

George R. R. Martin