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Literary Quotes

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life Picture Quote #1

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore Picture Quote #1

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies Picture Quote #1

I resisted children’s writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids’ books Picture Quote #1

I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don’t share problems I’m having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring Picture Quote #1

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry Picture Quote #1

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You don’t want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody’s free of all conventions. That’s ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don’t have conventions Picture Quote #1

For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe Picture Quote #1

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures Picture Quote #1

There’s literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn’t otherwise have Picture Quote #1

I can’t help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle of some literary project, I’m utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A book doesn’t have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever Picture Quote #1

There’s always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things Picture Quote #1

I didn’t know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days Picture Quote #1

I don’t know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it Picture Quote #1

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children Picture Quote #1

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the ‘ancient humanities’, and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches Picture Quote #1

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One’s politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about Picture Quote #1

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin’s life, the literary and artistic Picture Quote #1

America’s revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world Picture Quote #1

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic Picture Quote #1

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses Picture Quote #1

When you’re a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide ‘this happens, this happens, this happens’, whereas with literary writers it’s coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I’ve nothing to write Picture Quote #1

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I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it’s very mediocre Picture Quote #1

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it Picture Quote #1

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition Picture Quote #1

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it Picture Quote #1

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all Picture Quote #1

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) Picture Quote #1

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Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. (Literary Quotes) I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore. (Literary Quotes) I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies. (Literary Quotes) I resisted children’s writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids’ books. (Literary Quotes) I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don’t share problems I’m having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring. (Literary Quotes) When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry. (Literary Quotes) You don’t want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody’s free of all conventions. That’s ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don’t have conventions. (Literary Quotes) For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. (Literary Quotes) I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures. (Literary Quotes) There’s literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn’t otherwise have. (Literary Quotes) I can’t help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle of some literary project, I’m utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down. (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) A book doesn’t have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever (Literary Quotes) There’s always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. (Literary Quotes) I didn’t know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days. (Literary Quotes) I don’t know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it. (Literary Quotes) I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children (Literary Quotes) My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the ‘ancient humanities’, and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. (Literary Quotes) One’s politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. (Literary Quotes) I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin’s life, the literary and artistic. (Literary Quotes) America’s revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world. (Literary Quotes) Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. (Literary Quotes) Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses. (Literary Quotes) When you’re a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide ‘this happens, this happens, this happens’, whereas with literary writers it’s coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I’ve nothing to write. (Literary Quotes) I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it’s very mediocre. (Literary Quotes) What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it. (Literary Quotes) The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition. (Literary Quotes) Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it. (Literary Quotes) I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all (Literary Quotes) [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) (Literary Quotes)

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