Top 1200 Literary Style Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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.

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.

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 want to master every style of music. I want to master every way of performing. I want to master every artsy music video style and just be the greatest of all-time.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and cultural heritage.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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.

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.

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.

Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

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.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

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.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

It's a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

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 wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

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.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'