Literary Quotes
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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I have no literary fears.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
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'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.
