Top 1200 Literary Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

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 my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times, we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.