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• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  James Rollins

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• I don’t think that my films are ‘literary’; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

  Eric Rohmer

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• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.

  William Shakespeare

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• But it’s not just a game of finding literary references.

  Dan Simmons

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• A literary critic is someone who can’t write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

  Brian Lumley

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• I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies.

  Bret Easton Ellis

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• 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

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• ‘Cerebus’ is my attempt at a literary work.

  Dave Sim

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• Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

  Frank Sinatra

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• Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

  Gertrude Stein

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• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  Samuel Johnson

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• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’

  Samuel Butler

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

  George Saunders

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• If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

  George Ripley

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• But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being a director is.

  Steve Hackett

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• They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

  Stefan Kanfer

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• Excessive literary production is a social offense.

  George Eliot

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  George Eliot

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• Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

  Colin Firth

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• Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.

  Sherman Alexie

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