The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.
Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, ]
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
