Pastoral Resources

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

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.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

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

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.