There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
