Top 1200 Literary Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

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.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

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.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. The love that is beyond relationships, that is true love

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.