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• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

  Joyce Maynard

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• Literary critics make natural detectives.

  A.S. Byatt

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• I read everything I could find in English – Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that’s how it got started. After that, graduate school didn’t seem very important.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• I’m sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can’t be literary.

  Mark Helprin

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• Reading ‘Moby-Dick’ was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

  Chad Harbach

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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.

  Taylor Hackford

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• You don’t have to be dead to write a classic, and you don’t have to be literary to be smart.

  Lisa Scottoline

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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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