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This collection holds 746 literary quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Carlos Fuentes, David Hockney and Salman Rushdie.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I have no literary fears.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

A book makes claims of literary art.

There's no literary merit in my books.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

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

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

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

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

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