(169 quotes found)
“My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.”
Scott Turow
“It's a very interesting process to write in English because all my literary resources come from Spanish, ... I must confess that I felt really handicapped, creatively, when I accepted the proposal to sing in English. ... I thought that I would encounter more difficulties, but everything has come together.”
Shakira
“Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, and an indefatigable ally in many struggles.”
Salman Rushdie
“SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read _them_. A synposis of the entire work would be still better. The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic.”
Ambrose Bierce
“"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.”
Frederick Crews
“Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other”
John Updike
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
Samuel Johnson
“The great break of my literary career was going to law school.”
“A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.”
George Moore
“The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.”
Troy Perry
