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Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.


Marjorie Watts


#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.


Robert Hall


#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.


Adam Johnson


#book #center #character #imagine #literary

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.


Haruki Murakami


#literary-references #pop-culture #reading #writing #love

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.


Ken Follett


#century #genre #literary #most #popular

I have no literary fears.


Carlos Fuentes


#i #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


#being #entitles #free #like #literary

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.


V. S. Naipaul


#been #before #book #career #case

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.


James Payn


#elsewhere #england #literary #method #more

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.


James Payn


#any #arise #being #case #difficulty






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