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Literary Quotes (page 3)

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter. Robert W. Service
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny? that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be convertedinto words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end. Jorge Luis Borges
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun quote: "A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an..."
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be. John Braine
The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important. Joyce Carol Oates
In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating vessels, watertight compartments, in which there are gaps even between things that are contiguous, gaps that are affirmations, pieces of a puzzle belonging not to any one puzzle but to many, pieces assembled by forcing them into a certain place where they... Gilles Deleuze
A. N. Wilson quote: "I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some..."
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. A. N. Wilson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the..."
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Bernard Shaw quote: "In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the..."
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. George Bernard Shaw
Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy Paul Bourget
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. George Orwell
Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century. C. S. Lewis
Warren Ellis quote: "If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like..."
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it Warren Ellis
Ken Follet quote: "You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse..."
You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels. Ken Follet
But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”) Yevgeny Zamyatin

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