Quotes of: Literary Keyword

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Mary Sage Nguyen

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Naguib Mahfouz

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul Louis Couchoud

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul de Man

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Richard Curtis

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Sue Grafton

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Tony Conrad

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Tibor Fischer

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Ted Rall

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Kim Edwards

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Leland Ryken

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

Martin Amis

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

Martin Amis

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

Macaulay Culkin

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Sherman Alexie

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

Harry Golden