Top 1200 Literary Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
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.
That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
The best practice is inspired by theory.
I have a theory that confidence comes from self-worth.
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
Topology and number theory are my faves.
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
The best theory is inspired by practice.
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
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.
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
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.
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
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'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.
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.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Theory is needed to tell you where to look.
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.
A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.
Without a theory the facts are silent.
Without theory we can only copy.
If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
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.
Observations always involve theory.
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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.
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
A theory is a battlefield in your head.
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.
We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.
Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.
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.
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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 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.
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.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Theres 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.
There is such a difference between life and theory.
That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.
Set theory in sheep's clothing.
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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
It is the theory which decides what we can observe
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.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.
I don't like writing essays or theory.
Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.
Observation always involves theory.
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 have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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.
