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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, Mac, Fries, Am, Equivalent

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, Same, Stick, Just

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

Color, Crazy, Think, Divorce, Ghetto

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

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, Humor, Power, Style, Page, Clever

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

Emotions, New, Will, Survive, Year, Poet

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, Writing, Truth, People, Mystery

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

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu. Jason Reynolds

World, YouTube, Instagram, Compete, Xbox

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. P. J. O'Rourke

History, You, Way, Humour, Answers

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.' Bill Bryson

Reading, Time, You, New, Club, Idle

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, Book, Me, Remember, Meet

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, Passion, Poetry, Story, Garden

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

Men, World, Quotation, Over, Parole

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

Live, Men, Die, Satire, Lies, About

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, Hot, She, Temper

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

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept. H. P. Lovecraft

Reading, Good, Will, Never, More, Guide

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world. Sandra Cisneros

I Am, World, Small, Latino, Through

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. Doris Lessing

Job, Book, Thinking, Questions, Start

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

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now. Jennifer Egan

Good, Luck, Good Luck, Long, Changes

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Joseph Conrad

Passion, Man, Action, Friends, Political

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. John Grisham

Change, Great, I Am, Genius, Serious

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. Pankaj Mishra

Literature, Late, Nationalism, First

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux

Culture, Book, World, Me, Serious, India

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