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Literary Quotes

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life Picture Quote #1

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson’s Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries Picture Quote #1

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something Picture Quote #1

I’m defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre Picture Quote #1

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising Picture Quote #1

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types Picture Quote #1

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there’s such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they’re ignored by everybody else Picture Quote #1

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don’t have any formal education and can’t teach at the universities like other literary writers do Picture Quote #1

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever Picture Quote #1

I haven’t the stature to critique one of our literature’s great novels, Tobias; and I’m not one of those who believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons Picture Quote #1

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On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them Picture Quote #1

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone’s head Picture Quote #1

I’m also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children’s books. To be able to read my kids a children’s book that was inspired by them would be everything! Picture Quote #1

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels Picture Quote #1

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it’s an educated audience as well Picture Quote #1

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there Picture Quote #1

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I’m sold as a literary writer in Holland; I’m sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature Picture Quote #1

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas Picture Quote #1

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages Picture Quote #1

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking Picture Quote #1

The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process Picture Quote #1

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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting Picture Quote #1

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience Picture Quote #1

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces Picture Quote #1

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal Picture Quote #1

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms Picture Quote #1

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one’s existence Picture Quote #1

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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life (Literary Quotes) The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson’s (Literary Quotes) 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 (Literary Quotes) Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries (Literary Quotes) One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something (Literary Quotes) I’m defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre (Literary Quotes) Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising (Literary Quotes) My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types (Literary Quotes) The literary world is so full of pretension, and there’s such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they’re ignored by everybody else (Literary Quotes) I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don’t have any formal education and can’t teach at the universities like other literary writers do (Literary Quotes) I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever (Literary Quotes) I haven’t the stature to critique one of our literature’s great novels, Tobias; and I’m not one of those who believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons (Literary Quotes) On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them (Literary Quotes) Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone’s head (Literary Quotes) I’m also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children’s books. To be able to read my kids a children’s book that was inspired by them would be everything! (Literary Quotes) I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels (Literary Quotes) If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it’s an educated audience as well (Literary Quotes) I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there (Literary Quotes) I’m sold as a literary writer in Holland; I’m sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature (Literary Quotes) I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas (Literary Quotes) One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages (Literary Quotes) Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking (Literary Quotes) The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination (Literary Quotes) I don’t want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process (Literary Quotes) For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting (Literary Quotes) No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience (Literary Quotes) Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces (Literary Quotes) One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal (Literary Quotes) A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms (Literary Quotes) When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one’s existence (Literary Quotes)

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