The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
Lascelles Abercrombie
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
Martin Amis
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
Leonard Baskin
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire
English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always... →
Bernardo Bertolucci
My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby