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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. Leon Edel

Eyes, Become, Pilgrim, Four, Necessity

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, Same, Just

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

Hell, Hustler, Like, Fury, Agent, Hath

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, Dogma

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

Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving. Colson Whitehead

People, Moving, Problem, You, Whatever

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, Fries, Mac, Am, Equivalent

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about. Steven Wright

Hero, Great, Me, Book, Remember, Meet

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

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. Lafcadio Hearn

Education, Knowledge, Bible, Literature

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

Man, Power, Name, They Say, Say, Test

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Arna Bontemps

Me, Parent, Tell, Dare, Critic, Act

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

Music, Me, Reading, King, Growing Up, Up

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. Yann Martel

Work, Great, Sometimes, Unpredictable

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Horace

Eye, Years, Your, Nine, Public, Least

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible. Jay McInerney

Life, Culture, Purpose, Think, Gossip

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. Eric Rohmer

Life, Think, Ordinary, Things, Most

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. Umberto Eco

Criticism, Literature, Important, Study

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. Cynthia Ozick

Society, Distance, Gone, Pilgrimage, Saw

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

Good, History, Great, Culture, World

The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way. Richard Linklater

Culture, Ideas, Way, Film, Room, Should

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.' Dario Fo

Myself, Words, Writing, You, Free, Him

I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel. Jim Harrison

Language, You, Artist, Way, Poet, Gospel

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, Humor, Style, Page, News

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom, People, Criticism, Laziness

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

Men, Live, Die, Satire, Eulogy, Lies

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