Top 1200 Literary Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

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

Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

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.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

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.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

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

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

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

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.

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

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.

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

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

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

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

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

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

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

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

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

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.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

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