Literary Training Quotes

#1. Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

Joseph Brodsky

#2. I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth. Leo Buscaglia

Robert Holden

#4. You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.

Lindsey Davis

#5. Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.

Stephen Hunter

#6. But have you learned yet that tomorrow's answers usually don't come until tomorrow gets here?

Joyce Meyer

#7. Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

J.C. Ryle

#8. My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].

Rachel Kushner

#9. You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old.

Cindy Woodsmall