Top 1200 Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings - Page 11
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Last updated on September 30, 2024.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
Requiring companies to weaken devices with 'back doors' means we open up innocent Americans to the bad actors who would love easier access to our citizens' personal information.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."
We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.
As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human beings, sensors, observation devices.
The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
