#literary

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience. ↗

— Harry Golden

#currency #earned #every #experience #literary

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

...a fundamental rule of journalism, which is to tell a story and stick to it. The narratives of journalism (significantly called "stories"), like those of mythology and folklore, derive their power from their firm, undeviating sympathies and antipathies. Cinderella must remain good and the stepsisters bad. "Second stepsister not so bad after all" is not a good story. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#literary-criticism

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how

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

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

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. ↗

— George Saunders

#different #involves #literary #might #model

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#game #just #literary #references