Top 1200 Literary Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.
If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
In art, practice always comes before theory.
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
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.
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
The theory of government changes with general progress.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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.
My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Life had stepped into the place of theory.
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
This love for everyday things,
part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
part a literary calculation
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
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.
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
