Literary Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

I Am, Big, Am, Mac, Fries, Equivalent

Loading...

Load more quotes

Explore Topics

Motivational
Quotes

Positive
Quotes

Friendship
Quotes

Inspirational
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote

Please disable your ad blocker

OK