Literary Festivals Quotes

#1. (On literary festivals) When you go and see a band play live, you are watching it do on stage what it is meant to do. When you watch an author perform live, you are, most of the time, watching a dog walk on its hind legs.

Nicholas Lezard

#2. I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

Elliot Perlman

#3. The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ...

John Gimlette

#4. I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

Vikas Swarup

#5. Keeping that man out of trouble was like trying to return a whore to chastity.

Lydia Dare

#6. My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

Peter Atkins

#7. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

William Shakespeare

#8. Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare

#9. I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.

Jim Gaffigan

#10. He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take shape, however erroneous it might be, the mind unconsciously favors any data points that support it and discounts any that don't.

John Verdon

#11. For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

Halle Berry