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Last updated on September 30, 2024.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.
I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.
I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.
Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
The repeal of the medical device tax will lower the costs of care, improve access to these medical devices, and protect medtech manufacturing jobs throughout Georgia and our country.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
