Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I’m not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosex...

Jeanette Winterson

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.

Little Demon (Literary Monuments) / Melkiy Bes

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them s...

Mohsin Hamid

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote st...

Tom Perrotta

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Jonathan Ames

The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. is often alluded to as an atheistical writer, who held the silly opinion that the universe was the result of a fortuitous concourse of atoms rea...

Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc.

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!

Cities & Countries

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The party at the bar was for an Internet literary journal that prints a hard copy version that was famous in the world of Internet literary journals that prints hard copy versions. What that means, I do not know.

Best Behavior

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

The Beautiful and Damned

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

a quick turn around a corner and my planet becomes sand on the shore of a dying Universe

The Journey of Healing: Wisdom from Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Literary Anthology

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters Set