Top 1200 Literary Terms Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but still they go on thinking in terms of having. Their heaven is nothing but their projected desire of having everything. All that they have missed here they would like to have in the after-life. But it is the same desire.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms of technology, but I still have a hard time believing that we're going to stop speaking to each other. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. It's going to continue to create a cultural affect where people will be able to understand something beyond function that may otherwise be foreign to them.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.

I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.