England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
. . . and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. . . . Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
