But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
Lynne Truss
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
Colin Wilson
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... →
James Wolcott
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Harold Bloom
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
William Boyd
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Craig Brown
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
John Burdett
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
Janette Turner Hospital