Quotes of: Literary-work Keyword

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

Dave Sim

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Andrea Hirata

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works

The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition ...

Life

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

The Art of Literary Research

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

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. ...

Ali Smith

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

James Frey

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

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the we...

Infinite Jest

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to c...

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a...

The Poetics of Space

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minde...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Joanna Scott

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Mark Helprin

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.

Jacqueline Carey

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

Appreciations and criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

Misalliance

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I a...

Claire Tomalin

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

The Girls of Slender Means