How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
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.
