Quotes of: Literary Keyword

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Harold E. Varmus

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

Fernando Pessoa

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Ian Mcewan

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dean Koontz

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Jeffery Deaver

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

Janet Evanovich

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Harry Frankfurt

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Samuel Butler

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

William Moulton Marston

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

William Boyd

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.

Remarkable

When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.

Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems