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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges. Jeff Kinney

Entertainment, Other, Reader

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Margaret Atwood

People, Utopia, Fit

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. George Lucas

Digital, Pretty, Larger

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin

Religion, Grow, Dogma

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. - Stephen King

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. Stephen King

I Am, Big, Equivalent

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. J. K. Rowling

Love, Slim, Subject

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. - Frank Sinatra

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

Like, Hustler, Agent

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. Corey Taylor

Fiction, Crappy, Tastes

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation. Mario Vargas Llosa

Politics, Young, Aesthetic

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

Alone, Always, System

I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy. Boris Johnson

About, Winston Churchill

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. Lascelles Abercrombie

Read, Meant, Were

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. James Payn

Education, England, Method

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer

Newspaper, News, Needs

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. Will Self

Entertainment, Argued

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?' Chris Pavone

Decade, Very, Agent

Close friends consider me a literary snob. Rabih Alameddine

Me, Close Friends, Consider

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Wole Soyinka

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. Mario Vargas Llosa

Life, Lie, Impossible

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. Nancy Kress

Complexity, Ambiguity

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Clifford Geertz

Find, Persuasive, How

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Voltaire

Men, Die, About

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. T. S. Eliot

Survive, New, Emotions

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way. Haruki Murakami

Think, I Think, Tied

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete. James Gleick

Mathematics, I Think, Became

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. J. M. Coetzee

Prove, Tell, Aspects

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