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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

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

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks

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

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

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

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

My literary success meant nothing to me. — Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

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

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

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 think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich

Informative and understandable, even for non-techies like me... — Eva Hunter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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