Quotes of: Literary Keyword

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

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

James Payn

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Jerry Pournelle

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

Scott Turow

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

Blake Bailey

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Ira Glass

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Lucy: You take everyone's suffering and turn it into gold, LITERARY GOLD!

Deconstructing Harry

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Emma Donoghue

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

George Lucas

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

Alain de Botton

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Blake Bailey

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile ...

Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up rational Complacency, challenging reason a...

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He'...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society