#literary

Tragedy is a literary concept. ↗

— David Hockney

#literary #tragedy

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#great #had #haven #i #influences

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#friends #i #language #literary #me

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#awards #britain #british #changing #eligible

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beautiful #comes #davis #forms #i

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#during #endeavoured #evolution #evolutionary #half

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary #literary men #men #over #parole

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #fragment #human #human existence #literary