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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. -- Manuel Puig
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. -- Michael Scott
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. -- John Grisham
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. -- Yann Martel
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. -- Lafcadio Hearn
We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be. -- George Brandis
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. -- Scott Turow
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. -- George D. Prentice
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. -- Truman Capote
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. -- Henry James
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. -- Anthony Burgess
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. -- Heinrich Heine
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. -- William Landay
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. -- Thomas Carlyle
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold. -- Nina Jacobson
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. -- Leslie Stephen
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. -- Stephen Mangan
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. -- Stephen Mangan
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked. -- Kate Christensen

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