Top 1200 Literary Works Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?'

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

...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

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

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.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

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

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

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

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

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.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

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

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

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

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

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

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from. That distorts the political situation in our country tremendously. Most of that money is spent on negative advertising that is tearing down the character and reputation of your opponent, and it works, although most American people say, "We don't like negative advertising," it works.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

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.

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.

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

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

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Well that's a bit of a question like saying, what have you learned in life that would help you lead? My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state. Those experiences in totality have given me an understanding of how America works and how the economy works.

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

New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

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

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

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

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.

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

I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons.

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

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!