Top 1200 Literary Genre Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.
On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.
I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.
'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals.
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.
I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.
I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.
I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.
I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.
Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.
A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
