Literary Term For Quotes

#1. There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

Larry Niven

#2. The most difficult obstacles to remove are the ones that you create for yourself.

Amine A. Ayad

#3. For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

Karen Russell

#4. Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Mary Ruefle

#5. I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Andrew Vachss

#6. So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Donna Tartt

#7. Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

Zachary Cole Smith

#8. Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

#9. Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

Dave Morris

#10. The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror - so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape - as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.

H.G.Wells

#11. Kafkaesque

The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.

Franz Kafka

#12. Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.

Keir Graff

#13. No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Hector Hugh Munro

#14. Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

#15. So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

Steven Wright