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But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being a director is  (Literary Quotes) During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms  (Literary Quotes) Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension  (Literary Quotes) Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary  (Literary Quotes) The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards  (Literary Quotes) Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books  (Literary Quotes) A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially  (Literary Quotes) Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition  (Literary Quotes) Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high  (Literary Quotes) Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism  (Literary Quotes) The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud  (Literary Quotes) I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea  (Literary Quotes) Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must  (Literary Quotes) 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  (Literary Quotes) I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others  (Literary Quotes) Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience  (Literary Quotes) Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays  (Literary Quotes) I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation  (Literary Quotes) In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education  (Literary Quotes) Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it  (Literary Quotes) 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  (Literary Quotes) They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’  (Literary Quotes) Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals  (Literary Quotes) Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author  (Literary Quotes) I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn’t believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me  (Literary Quotes) Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends  (Literary Quotes) It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way  (Literary Quotes) 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  (Literary Quotes) I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all - purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books  (Literary Quotes) So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We’ll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world  (Literary Quotes)
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