The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
Harold Bloom

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
Lafcadio Hearn

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas Llosa

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

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
George Saunders

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
Kevin Ayers

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
Stefan Kanfer

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

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Mason Cooley

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
James Lee Burke

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.
Kevin Ayers

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
Richard Curtis

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Richard Russo

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
Tom Glazer

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Jonathan Carroll