Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
38 quotes about literary follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.
Scott Turow
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
John Cheever
I've been interested in getting our collection to have a broader literary sense and have gotten very excited about adding a Native American component, Right now we have very large collection of D.H. Lawrence and Charles Dickens - a couple [of] white guys from England.
Jim Carmin
PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot
The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great.
Douglas Hyde
The leading figure in Spain's literary renewal during the post-war era.
Camilo Jose Cela
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
California's red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.
Robert Stack
I like to think of it as adding texture to the festival. We want it to be very literary but we also want it to have appeal.
Debbie Harllee
Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.
Paul Levitz
His poetry was sufficiently important that it helped to put the university on the map from a literary standpoint.
William Andrews
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas Llosa
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Will Eisner
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
James Agee
Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
Benjamin Rush
This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.
Stella Pence
[Youngsters] are nurtured from infancy on a Dick-and-Jane literary and artistic level; and the cultural drought, as far as entertainment is concerned, sets in when they are between six and eight.
Judith Crist
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
Frederick Crews
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
Scott Turow
In the art gallery, listeners are given a fuller, more multidisciplinary experience. It's a way of getting literary people into the gallery, and the attendees of the readings get to experience the artwork as well.
Anna Monardo
PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Ambrose Bierce
They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
Stefan Kanfer
I think (the festival) is a good opportunity to establish Fort Collins as the literary hotbed of the region. It will allow us to celebrate what we have here already and expand on that.
Todd Simmons
I know, I can't believe it's an American either. I can do the accent, they wouldn't have hired me if I couldn't. I'm attached to it and we're trying to get financing for it. Jane Austen is one of the most special literary figures. I don't want to short change her in any way.
Anne Hathaway
There was enormous interest from publishers in this book. We met with numerous publishers and ultimately conducted a traditional literary auction.
Robert Barnett
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps
Danielle Steel is one of the world's great literary brands, and New Line Home Entertainment is proud to be in business with such a cultural icon.
Kevin Kasha
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe
That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.
Stephen Coonts
Even serious literary, intellectual readers want a story these days.
Daniel Menaker
I was immediately struck by the fact that he had all these literary quarterlies that you couldn't get anywhere else.
Ed Mcclanahan
But it's a useful way of increasing sales and drawing attention to literary fiction, which is no bad thing.
Zoe Heller
Zhang's passing is undoubtedly a great loss for China's literary circles.
Zhang Yiwu
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