401 Literary Quotes for You to Enjoy

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script. Luke Evans

Work Character Book Research Read Documents Off Historical Role Literary Fictional Script Figure Biographies

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality. Lynn Coady

Entertainment People Reputation Our Out Shake Mentality Participate Until Readings Snap Going Diet Literary Them Organize Who

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things. Lynn Coady

You Face Reading Depend At Least One Mentally Adrenalin Participation Audience Always Least Handful Often Literary Dose Average Your Things

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Lynne Truss

Job Got Editor Years Literary After University

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic. M. J. Hyland

Me Director Age Lawyer Journalist Before Seven TV City Spine Magazine Both Cadet Also Editor Opposite Years Brain Moved Literary After Then Worked Film Film And TV Assistant

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. Macaulay Culkin

Me Welcome Book Community Kid Some Schmuck Open Open Arms Wrote Arms American Expecting Just Literary Them Who

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case. Maria Semple

Me People Will Some People Submit Think Television Some Case Write Ideas Hire Literary Script Full Original

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write. Marian Keyes

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. Mark Haddon

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'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Mark Helprin

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I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. Mark Helprin

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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Mary Augusta Ward

Marriage Our Ours Soon Partnership Became Very Literary After Plain

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

History Word Will Every Critic He Outwit Literary Believes Last

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Mason Cooley

First Only Came Refer Itself Literary Literature Theory

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance. Matt Groening

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff. Matt Groening

Me Science Comedy Honor Situation Nice Too Our Way Television Some About Stuff Ideas Obviously Sort Although Science Fiction Traditional Led Fiction Movie Literary Personally Much Workplace Nice Thing Thing

America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world. Matthew Stewart

World Saw Drew Civilized Civilized World Participants Most Were Sources America Revolutionary Same Movement Literary Themselves Across International

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