Literary Quotes

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

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

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

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

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

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

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

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.