It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when the sources provided by folklore could safely be used as literary material. It is almost a necessity, ...
I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them—and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them, over and over. If I could have thought the words...
I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't ...
It's a real lightning bolt, this Science of Phrenology. I've found out more in the last three days than I knew in my whole life before. Mrs. Guilbert has always been a nasty one, but now I know that she can't help it—she's got a big pit in her Bene...
As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generati...
Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesma...
The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
