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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

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

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

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