Top 1200 Literary Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman was invented in the '30s, Wonder Woman in the '40s - if they were still operating under those kinds of constraints, they'd die. These pop cultures, just like Greek myths, they have to reflect the time their stories are being told. That's what makes them relevant.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

What's interesting about the 'Smash Bros.' games, is that the 'Smash Bros.' games do not represent the Nintendo characters fighting against one another: they actually represent toys of Nintendo characters getting into an imaginary battle amongst themselves.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

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.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

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.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.