Literary Game Quotes

#1. On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader offering to take each character's side every few pages.

Richard Corliss

#2. Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller

#3. That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

John Green

#4. Quickly, Watson, the game's afoot, I said, but Deborah was not in a literary mood.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

Dan Simmons

#6. Help yourself warm up and prepare mentally by repeating, "I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel terrific!" It is not possible for you to talk positively to yourself, using words like this, without immediately feeling happier and more confident.

Brian Tracy

#7. It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Vanessa Hudgens

#8. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...

Martin Hopkins

#9. The fixed is the world without fire- dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

Annie Dillard

#10. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Gabriela Mistral

#11. Bite my laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes, spell me stark and spill me swooning, I just don't care what my thwarters think.

James Joyce