I do not come out of a literary tradition.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
I can't bear literary snobbery.
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all, by the next and last step of disillusion; the realisation...
Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one car...
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I’ve said, there was only one. Seneca. Do you know who he was? He was a Roman philosopher who wrote letters to imaginary friends telling them how to behave for the rest of their l...
It was so kind of you to write to me about your experiences during the Occupation. At the war's end, I, too, promised myself that I had done with talking about it. I had talked and lived war for six years, and I was longing to pay attention to someth...
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limi...
The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for poetry, and why it boils the study of literature down to the scra...
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.