Quotes About Literary

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Through their visual and literary lines, Rilke and Kahlo seem to attain a sense of personal equanimity by entertaining the secular import of Thomas Browne's assertion that "there is something in us, that can be without us, and will be after us.

If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking depiction of difficult emotions, and an exploration of interesting ideas.

literary annexes known as Houses of Life.

We're talking tradition here, for heaven's sake. Not literary analysis. Do you consider "Good morning" to be a weather report?

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.

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.

We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.

Most of the time fame is nothing more than a product of commerce, and has nothing to do with literary quality.

The history of Argentinian literature should be divided into two periods: before Borges (before 1941) and after Borges (after 1941).

Jah knows my peeve about Goodreads quotes is that it's not mandatory to site the literary source.

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

In fact, I would argue that these mythic modes are more easily identifiable in historiographical than they are in 'literary' texts. For historians usually work with much less linguistic (and therefore less poetic) self-consciousness than writers of fiction do. They tend to treat language as a transparent vehicle of representation that brings no cognitive baggage of its own into the discourse.

I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.