Literary Theories Quotes

#1. As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

Mo Yan

#2. Literary theories will not make a writer write.

Allen Wier

#3. It's impossible to conquer the Promised Land and be successful in it without God's wisdom.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...

Joseph Conrad

#5. Princess, why don't you just take the pregnancy test? Then, if it says no, you will know it's just the flu; and if it says yes, well, you can freak, and I can celebrate.

Jillian Dodd

#6. What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

John Woo

#9. If it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography - and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself in his creation - then there are some of us to whom an open display of sentiment is repugnant.

Joseph Conrad

#10. In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. Have you ever loved someone without liking them?

Stephen King

#12. You will notice that there may be specific times of day or even situations where your spiritual information will flow to you most easily.

Catherine Carrigan

#13. Great minds like a think
-The Economist-

Samuel Gompers