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

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

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

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.