Literary Figures Quotes

#1. Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.

Anais Nin

#2. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

John Wilson

#3. Writers are influenced by their upbringing and experiences. But they are also influenced by the writings of others, the major historical events of their times and the great public and literary figures to whom they are exposed.

Joseph Kenyon

#4. You're kind of blind, you know?" Puck whispered, smiling to soften his words. "I wouldn't defy Oberon for just anyone. But, for you ... " He leaned forward, touching his forehead to mine. "I'd come back from the dead for you.

Julie Kagawa

#5. If u don't like warriors then i don't like u so go away u stalkers ... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Erin Hunter

#6. Women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back on. So they seek it by adopting and pleasing patriarchal standards.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish
Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed
himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and
has lived selflessly for the art

Seamus Heaney

#8. When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

Tom Brokaw

#9. I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Chubby Checker

#10. The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Pat Conroy

#11. I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

John Hodgman

#12. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that?

Stephen Chbosky

#13. You became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close ...

John Geddes

#14. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#15. Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Wallace Stevens

#16. If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?

Elizabeth Gilbert