Top 1200 Literary Works Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Faith without works is dead just as a movement without works is also dead.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works."

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

I like it to fit my individual body shape, and I encourage other women to find what works for their body shape and not necessarily follow trends. But what is it that works for you as an individual, and what brings out the best in you, and what can you have fun with and feel really good about.

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in a broader sense when they participate in a social and political debate through their works. Often the most important voices of artists in the political and the social debate are focused on originality in their works. We can see this in historical pieces, like "Guernica" by Picasso. "Guernica" was an extremely important manifestation and critique against war, but it was important and powerful because it was also an incredibly original and powerful work of art.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.