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If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it (Literary Quotes)
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death (Literary Quotes)
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all (Literary Quotes)
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word (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)
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing (Literary Quotes)
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power... it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits (Literary Quotes)
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently (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 (Literary Quotes)
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds (Literary Quotes)
I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poetry in it (Literary Quotes)
When you’re a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it’s the same game played over and over again. There’s nothing unique or marvelous. It’s not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It’s just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you’re not a good sportswriter (Literary Quotes)
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties (Literary Quotes)
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today’s literary world; there’s precious little economic incentive to write one (Literary Quotes)
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule (Literary Quotes)
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it’s there to be seen (Literary Quotes)
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read (Literary Quotes)
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be (Literary Quotes)
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country.. it is up to political organization.. and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation (Literary Quotes)
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal (Literary Quotes)
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him? (Literary Quotes)
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love (Literary Quotes)
I’m sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can’t be literary (Literary Quotes)
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form (Literary Quotes)
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made (Literary Quotes)
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste (Literary Quotes)
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody (Literary Quotes)
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! (Literary Quotes)
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists (Literary Quotes)
I’m really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they’re reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects (Literary Quotes)