“We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.”
Kevin Ayers
“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.”
Stephen King
“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
Gaston Bachelard
“(Nathaniel) Hawthorne's books were potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establishment. No one knows if the Harry Potter books will be part of the literary curriculum 100 years from now, but it's quite possible.”
Henry Jenkins
“There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“[Nathaniel Hawthorne's books were] potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establishment, ... No one knows if the Harry Potter books will be part of the literary curriculum 100 years from now, but it's quite possible.”
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
Oscar Wilde
