Quotes of: Literary-work Keyword

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Colin Firth

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

Irving Paul Lazar

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

John Barton

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

Craig Brown

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Joanne Kelly

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

William Boyd

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

Life

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Leonard Baskin

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Nelson Algren

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Nelson Algren

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

Will Self

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Sigmar Gabriel