A Quote by Michael Dirda

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Michael Dirda

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Michael Dirda
American - Critic
Born: 1948

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

Neil Cross

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

Neil Cross

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

Jeanette Winterson

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

James Frey

I'm a hedonist.

Tommy Lee Jones

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

Robin Wright

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

Jason Bateman

I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.

Chris Farley

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Timothy Leary

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

Ethel Merman

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Nick Offerman

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Taylor Caldwell

My literary success meant nothing to me

Taylor Caldwell

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

Zadie Smith

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