#literary

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. ↗

— Ted Rall

#graphic #i #i think #literary #novel

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#finds #literary #literature #wisdom

Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#literary-criticism

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#down #exactly #i #into #know

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency! ↗

— Richard Curtis

#anyone #gloves #i #imagine #literary

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#going #i #literary #london #me

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction