Top 1200 Literary Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

Life without literary studies is death.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

My literary success meant nothing to me

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

A book makes claims of literary art.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it as its own literary tradition, because your race plays a great factor in how you are seen by the world, and how you see the world; the fact that I'm an Asian American isn't incidental to who I am as a writer. Where it becomes difficult is defining what, if anything identifiable at all, makes an Asian American book an Asian American book, other than the fact of its creator being Asian. And I'd argue that there is nothing identifiable beyond that.

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life.

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.