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literary publishers secretly wrote
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
literary resisted saw time writer
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Ellen Potter
literary looking novels parties people problem spend time york
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Ian Mcewan
literary-genre mind tasks
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. Aberjhani
literary published terrible
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Siri Hustvedt
literary reasons writers
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. Jeffrey Eugenides
literary work
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Andrea Hirata
literary robust seem serious struck
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
point woods
The point is, we're not out of the woods yet, Satya Pradhuman
point stop
The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
point
The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.
point
The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
point
The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs. Livan Hernandez
point reach
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions. Jan Egeland
point succeeded
We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.
point thinks
We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point. Tom Renney
point state
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. Michael Ondaatje