Quotes of: Literary-work Keyword

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Scott Turow

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

Dan Simmons

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Charles Baudelaire

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Rick Perlstein

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Voltaire

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society. One way of describing his work is to say that he makes us recognize that the u...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes...

Susan Sontag

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literar...

M. John Harrison

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with v...

D.H. Lawrence

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mason Cooley

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Mason Cooley

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Ken Follett

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

Nina Jacobson

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Rick Moody

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Janette Turner Hospital