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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

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

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

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.

Anne Stevenson

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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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

Stephen King

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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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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Rick Moody

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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.

Anne Stevenson

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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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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Jose Saramago

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

Leon Edel

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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Robert Hall

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People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

J. M. Coetzee

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