Literary Quotes

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

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

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

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

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

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

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

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

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

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

I have no literary fears.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Tragedy is a literary concept.