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A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Brian Lumley
Wonderful
Critic
Would
Someone
Only
Could
Write
Writer
He
Been
Literary
Loves
Show
Who
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
Me
Animal
Everything
Am
Ends
Literary
Literature
I have no literary fears.
Carlos Fuentes
Fears
Literary
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
Carol Ann Duffy
People
Language
Young
Way
Able
Poem
Form
Literary
Young People
Century
Connect
Deep
Play
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Chad Harbach
Me
Experience
Reading
Sort
Literary
Transformative
Really
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Character
Experience
Recollection
Memoir
About
Emotion
Particular
Non-Fiction
Personal
Personal Experience
Often
Fiction
Literary
Story
Much
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
China Mieville
Writing
Sometimes
Become
Way
Sectarian
About
Feel
Well
Although
Norm
Get
Literary
Against
Little
Certain
Notion
Resent
It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You
Easy
Write
Writer
Never
Readership
Limited
Trying
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
Really
Successful
Choice
Your
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
Christian de Duve
Education
School
Humanities
Ancient
Strongly
More
Had
Attended
Attracted
Tradition
Been
According
Branches
Literary
Centered
Which
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
Christopher Dawson
Knowledge
Political
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Purely
Economic
Exchange
Never
Between
Ideas
Institutions
Also
North
Artistic
Influence
Literary
Intercourse
Central
Forms
Social
Meant
Social Institutions
Europe
I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.
Christopher Lee
Achievement
Book
People
Wait
Nothing
Think
Other
Rings
Lifetime
Had
Written
Like
Greatest
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Still
Been
Literary
Then
Many
Ever
Second
Third
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
Claire Messud
Somewhere
Important
Our
Said
Literally
Literary
Lived
Lives
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
Claire Tomalin
Work
Remember
Job
Three
Thinking
Statesman
Perfect
Week
Could
Had
New
Days
Make
Got
Editor
Heard
Going
Children
Literary
Deputy
Working
Standard
Evening
Applied
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
Claire Tomalin
Seriously
Thought
Glorious
Books
Critic
Something
Take
Editor
Doing
Up
Mattered
Literary
Really
Standards
Keep
Thing
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
Criticism
Research
Out
Find
Point
How
Anthropology
Replace
Literary
Literary Criticism
Persuasive
Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
Clive Sinclair
Young
Other
Back
Pleased
Secretly
Range
Seemed
Open
Like
Fences
Lists
Literary
Among
Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead
You
People
Problem
Whatever
Keep Moving
Other
About
Write
Supposed
Genre
Sort
Literary
Moving
Keep
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
Corey Taylor
Work
Good
Man
Try
Long
Out
Kind
Would
Idea
Like
Audience
Hand
Get
Going
Just
Cranking
Fiction
Just Kind
Literary
Them
Really
Body
Standpoint
Novel
Keep
Starting
Good Idea
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
Corey Taylor
Music
Me
King
Reading
Thompson
Hunter
Various
Beat
Had
Beats
Stephen King
Like
Non-Fiction
Huge
Up
Huge Fan
Tastes
Essays
Situations
Movement
Different
Fiction
Fan
Grew
Crappy
Literary
Poor
Sane
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Kept
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
Memory
Nothing
Others
Press
Bad
About
Examples
Except
Writer
Generally
Had
Self-Indulgent
Reveals
Condemned
Traditional
His
Autobiography
Form
Literary
Poor
Novelist
With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.
D. B. Sweeney
You
Lose
Plot
More
Red
Red Sox
Know
How
Going
Just
Sox
Unfold
Literary
Interest
Interested
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
Daniel Alarcon
Writing
School
Language
Seriously
High
High School
Had
Sophisticated
Particularly
Domestic
Literary
Spanish
English
Disposal
Started
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
Daniel H. Wilson
Me
Three
Idiot
Before
Back
Recommended
Directly
Never
Had
He
Contact
Looked
Wrote
Editor
Friend
Literary
Them
Then
Worked
Agents
Letter
Fox
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
Daniel Handler
Work
Money
First
Took
Sold
Finally
Had
Smallest
Almost
Years
Sell
Times
Six
Fiction
Literary
Agent
Then
Interim
Novel
Ever
Amount
Rejected
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
Daniel Radcliffe
Mom
Director
Experience
Horrible
Casting
Had
Became
Were
Literary
Younger
Agent
Mom And Dad
Dad
Actor
Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star.
Darryl Pinckney
Book
Down
Gave
Our
Those
Neither
Entertainer
Athlete
Embraced
Exalted
Blacks
Never
He
Prose
Spokesman
Nevertheless
Liked
Tradition
Nor
Literary
Whether
Who
Sat
Even
Star
Expression
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