Literary Status Quotes

#1. The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Karl Shapiro

#2. Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.
The earth will dance, peace to share.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Sometimes, dead is bettah - Jud Crandall, Pet Sematary

Stephen King

#4. At that moment in her life, Elisa was, he realized, almost pathologically attracted not to status or money or good looks but to literary and intellectual potential.

Adelle Waldman

#5. These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?

Miles Cameron

#6. One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Harold Bloom

#7. What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

#8. The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

Gilberto Gil

#9. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#10. Wildness is my suiting scene.

John Clare

#11. The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

Nicholas Mosley