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'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.


Dave Sim
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
George R. R. Martin
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.


Laura Riding
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
Neil Cross
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Neil Cross
Tags: More Than Nothing
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.


Dan Simmons
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.


Mario Vargas Llosa
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I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.


Paula Hawkins
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.


Erma Bombeck
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Craig Brown
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.


Irving Paul Lazar
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.


Horace
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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago
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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.


Jeffery Deaver
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Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.


Colin Firth
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There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.


John Burdett
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There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
George Saunders
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You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.


Richard Curtis
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It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.


Leonard Baskin
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V. S. Naipaul
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
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Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
George Lucas
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Sue Grafton
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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby
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As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
Will Self
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
Edmund Morgan
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You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
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We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
Richard Curtis
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Margaret Atwood
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My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey
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The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.
G. Willow Wilson
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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
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