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The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. — Robert McKee

Can I help it if the world cannot worship what it has not first martyred? — Casper Silk

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. — Salman Rushdie

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. — Michael Stutz

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. — C.S. Lewis

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time. — Janet Fitch

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well. — William Monahan

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. — George Saunders

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley

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

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. — Karl Shapiro

Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs. — David B. Lentz

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. — Will Self

My best girl wore diesel. Steamy asphalt ribbons poured over her gravel shoulders. Curves that took me to Zanzibar.... — Michael Walsh

A literary woman's best critic is her husband ... — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it. — Alan Furst

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin
a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson

Suggestion is a literary strategy. — Samuel R. Delany

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another. — Gerald Weaver

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life. — Lisa See

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. — P.D. James

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. — Nancy Kress

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust. — Norman Lock

I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir. — Lizzie K. Foley

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. — Clive Sinclair

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian McEwan

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me — Miguel El Portugues

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. — Aldous Huxley

My literary success meant nothing to me. — Taylor Caldwell

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz