Quotes of: Literary-work Keyword

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics)

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

Walking a Literary Labryinth

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

John Grisham

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.

Edith Wharton

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

Dubravka Ugrešić

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. B...

Peter Weir

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Andrew Vachss

I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Rita Mae Brown

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Corey Taylor

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

A. E. van Vogt

…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, ...

Love

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of s...

Joanne Harris

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a for his actions.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

Taylor Hackford

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

Neil Cross

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Kathy Acker