Literary Quotes
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice.
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.
Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.
Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.
The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.
It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
CONGRATULATIONS DL Havlin! Your entry, "There are No Lights in Naples", an unpublished short fiction - flash fiction genre category, is a finalist for the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition!
To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.
Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn
Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?
It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Sifting through scattered memories is like sifting through sand. Some remain, some simply slipaway…– TARA
I wonder if every girl yearns for her father’s love, almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees—beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.-MUKTA
It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA
The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.
One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”Tina: “Uh-huh.
Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.
