(169 quotes found)
“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, not a truth that anybody would believe.”
Mark Twain
“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
Henry James
“That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.”
Stephen Coonts
“This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.”
Stella Pence
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“the leading figure in Spain's literary renewal during the post-war era.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn't matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a question real children would have.”
Anne Phillips
“Literary and political work helps people to ged rid of stereotypes”
Amos Oz
“First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
