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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
,
Problem
,
You
,
Utopia
,
Stick
,
Who
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
Good
,
Power
,
Style
,
Humor
,
Newspaper
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
Religion
,
Grow
,
Political
,
Become
,
Adopt
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.
Mark Helprin
Work
,
Garden
,
American
,
Public Domain
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
Frank Deford
Good
,
Humor
,
Pain
,
Believe
,
Think
,
Doing
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps
Me
,
Parent
,
Dare
,
Act
,
Tell
,
Critic
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
Hell
,
Hustler
,
Like
,
Agent
,
Fury
,
Hath
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine
Me
,
Friends
,
Close
,
Snob
,
Close Friends
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
J. K. Rowling
Girl
,
Ambition
,
Small
,
March
,
Hot
,
She
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.
Jess Walter
Crazy
,
Color
,
Think
,
Divorce
,
Ghetto
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
Opinion
,
Others
,
Different
,
Up
,
Made
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. Martin
Science
,
Truth
,
People
,
Writing
,
Mystery
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
Jack Kerouac
Heart
,
Me
,
Believe
,
Born
,
You
,
Form
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden
Responsibility
,
Poetry
,
American
,
Poet
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal
Work
,
Politics
,
Impossible
,
Ignore
,
Gun
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
David Cronenberg
History
,
Culture
,
Religion
,
Language
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.
E. F. Benson
Start
,
Young
,
New
,
Matter
,
Aspirations
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
Michiko Kakutani
Writing
,
Criticism
,
Political
,
Weak
,
He
'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.
Robin Sloan
Great
,
American
,
Important
,
Fiction
,
Put
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
Amiri Baraka
Man
,
Black
,
Voice
,
Spirit
,
First
,
Old
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
Irvine Welsh
Culture
,
People
,
Know
,
Understand
,
More
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden
Man
,
Woman
,
Experience
,
Adventure
,
World
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone
Mistake
,
Saying
,
Political
,
Authority
Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
Janet Fitch
Time
,
Long
,
Long Time
,
Idol
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
Guy Davenport
Education
,
Teacher
,
Purpose
,
People
,
Try
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Stephen King
I Am
,
Big
,
Am
,
Mac
,
Fries
,
Equivalent
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