Top 1200 Literary Genre Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.
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.
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.
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
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.
The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
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.
I'd be happy to do a project of any genre as long as the audience can enjoy the story because of my performance.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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.
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 love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.
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.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
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.
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.
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 lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
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.
It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.
'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.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
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.
I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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.
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.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
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.
