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

Life without literary studies is death. — Seneca The Younger

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life. — Thom Gunn

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. — Laurence Housman

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller

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

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak. — D. Biswas

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life — John Cheever

Unlike literary characters, our future is mostly shaped by small, trivial choices - seemingly insignificant, but deceptively fateful. — Guillermo Erades

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

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast. — Lauren Oliver

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe... — Curtis R. Smith

I'm looking for the exit."
"The Last Exit to Brooklyn, will it be?"
"Er, no! Just the way out."
From "One man in his time — Anthony J. Saunders

When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple. — Orna Ross

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig

The story we write today will support the next generation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad. — Rebecca McNutt

Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary. — Orna Ross

All I want is to sleep
to dream. Life is better in dreams. — Christina Westover

In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life. — Jane Goldman

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. — Mark Twain

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. — Rebecca Solnit

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. — Donna Jo Napoli

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

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

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter

Sometimes you can't wait for the rest of your life to come to you. You have to go to it. Or at least meet it half way. — Gerry Pirani

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. — Rick Moody

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life. — Orna Ross

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values. — Dubravka Ugresic

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. — Raymond Carver

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. — Charles Bukowski

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong. — F. Sionil Jose

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] — Guy De Maupassant

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials — Jean Rhys