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• Literary critics make natural detectives.

  A.S. Byatt

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  Tags in Literary

• I read everything I could find in English – Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that’s how it got started. After that, graduate school didn’t seem very important.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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  Tags in Literary, Twain

• 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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  Tags in Literary, Books

• Reading ‘Moby-Dick’ was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Reading, Literary

• You don’t have to be dead to write a classic, and you don’t have to be literary to be smart.

  Lisa Scottoline

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  Tags in Smart, Literary

• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  James Rollins

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• I don’t think that my films are ‘literary’; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

  Eric Rohmer

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  Tags in Literary, Ordinary

• 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

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  Tags in Century, Literary

• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Literary

• I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies.

  Bret Easton Ellis

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  Tags in Literary, Sensibility

• But it’s not just a game of finding literary references.

  Dan Simmons

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• ‘Cerebus’ is my attempt at a literary work.

  Dave Sim

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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

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• If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

  George Ripley

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  Tags in Literary, Egregious

• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

  David Antin

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• Maybe when I’m sixty-five I’ll talk about my literary life.

  Rick Moody

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  Tags in Talk, Literary

• Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

  Rick Moody

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  Tags in Problem, Literary, Bookstore

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

  Richard Curtis

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  Tags in Remember, Running, Literary

• When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that’s the end. Here’s another who’s never going to write well again.

  Richard Russo

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  Tags in Assume, Literary

• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

  Joyce Maynard

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