Quotes About Literary Magazines

#1. I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#2. Howard Junker, the founder of Zyzzyva, one of our most well-respected literary magazines, has been frequently quoted as saying: "The perfect Seventies symbol was the pet rock, which just sat there, doing nothing.

Michael Stephans

#3. Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

J.D. Salinger

#4. I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Jami Attenberg

#5. I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

Marilyn Hacker

#6. The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Steve Almond

#7. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

John Barton

#8. The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Karl E. Weick

#9. In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Bill Bryson

#10. But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Philip Pullman

#11. Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

Emily Bronte

#12. By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out.

Steve Hagen

#13. I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

Leigh Steinberg

#14. The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

John Dunning

#15. "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

Frederick Crews

#16. A truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something was broken.

Terry Pratchett

#17. God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Lysa TerKeurst

#18. Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are
else there would beno dealing with them.

Laurence Sterne

#19. The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

John Guare

#20. Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Brooks Robinson

#21. There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

Edgar Allan Poe