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George V. Higgins's 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1970) added an extra literary layer to the con novel; James Crumley's 'The Last Good Kiss' (1978) influenced countless writers and will be remembered forever for its opening line, quoted often in obituaries of the author.
Sarah Weinman
Good
Will
Kiss
Extra
Added
Obituaries
Layer
Writers
Remembered
Con
Countless
Opening
Eddie
George
Line
Friends
Forever
Author
Often
Influenced
James
Literary
Quoted
Novel
Last
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha
Home
You
Seen
Stage
Every
Our
Some
Atmosphere
Shakespeare
Protagonist
Yale
Surprise
Up
Escape
Graduated
Moved
Nationality
Grew
Literary
Realized
Ethnic
Actor
Amount
Played
Adaptation
It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.
Scott Spencer
Time
Matter
Back
Abandoned
Some
Hack
Take
Subject
Subject Matter
May
Literary
Movies
Serious
Novelists
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow
Worth
Books
Plot
Plots
Would
One Thing
More
Could
Had
Part
Written
Like
Importance
Involves
Movement
Being
The One Thing
Literary
Which
Asserting
Credit
Thing
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
Scott Turow
Great
Law
School
Say
Law School
Always
Literary
Break
Mean
Career
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
Sergey Brin
Black
Books
Libraries
Black Hole
Tenacious
Vast
Vast Majority
Except
Written
Disappear
Academic
Most
Majority
Accessible
Quickly
Anyone
Literary
After
Hole
Premier
Researchers
Ever
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Shelley Berman
Writing
Humor
Master
Dramatic
Am
Literary
Teaching
Professional
Program
In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.
Sid Fleischman
Today
Book
Humor
Joke
First
Out
Would
Some
Mysterious
Take
Longer
Because
Editors
Were
Reviewers
Afraid
Literary
Regarded
Story
Asked
Dismiss
Company
Enjoyed
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
Simon Callow
Life
Character
Books
Kind
About
Feature
Him
Understand
His
Lot
Get
Literary
Anything
Which
Little
Scripts
Victorian
Sent
Really
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Simon Mawer
People
Types
Saw
Those
Most
Became
Managers
Bank
Literary
Themselves
Who
University
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Wonderful
Though
Find
Idea
Obsolete
Read
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
Many
Novels
Now
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'
Sophie Hannah
Book
Crime
First
Reading
Few
Crime Fiction
Books
Carry
Would
About
Proper
Emerging
Mystery
Like
Obviously
Snobby
Want
Fiction
Literary
Pages
Novel
Why
Start
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
Sophie Hannah
Good
Writing
Important
Type
Relationships
Say
Would
Would-Be
About
Highbrow
She
Austen
Moby
Moby Dick
Whale
Just
Romantic
Literary
Jane
Jane Austen
Ever
Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.
Stephen Kinzer
Home
Man
People
World
Important
State
Indigenous
Investor
Well
Became
Said
Literary
Centuries
Produced
Richest
Richest Man
Warren
Figure
Warren Buffett
Nebraska
Second
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.
Steven Wright
Great
Me
Book
Remember
Hero
Meet
Several
Favorite
About
Thrill
He
Him
Talked
Got
Kurt
Times
Literary
Anything
Which
Really
I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
Stewart Lee
Comedy
Clever
Type
Extrovert
Classic
More
Write
Bullied
Ambitious
Wanted
Literary
Little
Who
Plays
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
Susan Cheever
Woman
Political
Men
Motherhood
Final
Married
Torn
Married Men
Between
Ultimately
Reporter
Literary
Fierce
Fuller
Her
Margaret
Career
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
Susan Minot
Writing
School
Thought
College
Expectation
Back
Back To School
Backed
Background
Kind
Studied
Mostly
Because
Felt
Go
Graduate
Graduate School
Maybe
Wanted
Literary
Literature
English
English Literature
Gaps
Zero
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
Emotions
Will
Poet
Year
Must
Seek
He
New
Beyond
Alter
His
Survive
Any
Different
Influences
Literary
Different Emotions
To Survive
Express
My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell
Success
Me
Nothing
Literary
Meant
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.
Teju Cole
Conversation
Will
Analogue
Immediately
Recognise
City
Open
Joyce
Also
Reader
Because
Passage
Very
Close
Any
Formal
Literary
Stories
Novel
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether it's literary, poetry, or really good lyrics in a song.
Teju Cole
Good
People
Song
Space
Language
Big
Twitter
Lyrical
Lyrics
Way
Responds
Inside
Something
Poetry
Part
Most
Because
Becomes
Big Part
Getting
Literary
Whether
Interesting
Interesting Way
Us
Really
Deep
Deep Inside
Now
Lives
Cared
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
Terry Eagleton
Time
Me
Together
Reading
Think
Bit
Topics
Astute
Admire
Some
More
He
Suppose
Liked
Him
Ideological
Read
Lot
Very
Represent
Stopped
Literary
Interests
Early
Phenomenon
I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.
Terry Teachout
Science
Translation
Simplest
Most
Understand
How
Lines
Itself
Suspect
May
Literary
Lend
Multiple
Even
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.
Thomas Mallon
Politics
You
Writing
Will
Politicians
Think
Society
State
Say
Responsibilities
Civic
Civil
About
Civil Society
Write
Part
Feel
Essay
Want
Literary
Anything
Interesting
Even
Novelist
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
Political
Out
Issues
Political Issues
Role
Endures
Literary
Public
Social
Speaking
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