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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 think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.
Helen Mirren
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Sufjan Stevens
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I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
James Frey
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.


Laura Riding
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.


Benjamin Tucker
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
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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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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
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Andy Goldsworthy
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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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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.


Stephen Sondheim
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.


Victoria Jackson
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Craig Brown