Literary Text Quotes

#1. No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Washington Irving

#2. I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Jean Kerr

#3. When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

Tzvetan Todorov

#4. She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility.

Kate Morton

#5. The Old Spice ads - women love it. The guys find it annoying. It always causes a great conversation. And it makes it more fun. You know, we've been testing those visuals to see what attracts attention.

Frank Luntz

#6. Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Christine Feehan

#7. When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

Edward Hirsch

#8. Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

Matthew Zapruder

#9. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Jeff Bezos

#10. I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

Terry Eagleton

#11. Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

Frances Allen

#12. Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

Aron Ralston

#13. The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#14. I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Jim Jarmusch

#15. The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

Edward Hirsch

#16. People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Tony Conrad

#17. I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Andrea Hirata

#18. For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Antin

#19. Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.

Geneen Roth

#20. I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

Sean Quinn

#21. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.

Tommy Cooper

#22. The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Kenneth McLeish