Literary Quotes

Zhang's passing is undoubtedly a great loss for China's literary circles. - Zhang Yiwu

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. - Chuck Palahniuk

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

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. - A. E. Van Vogt

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. - John Wilson

With these helpful features, users will be able to find anything from medical papers to travel profiles, and from literary journals to celebrity biographies quickly and easily. - Peter Adams

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. - Paul Ricoeur

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. - Mark Twain

When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature. - Roddy Doyle

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