Ashby - Literary Work

Famous quotes containing the words literary work, literary and/or work:

“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classics did the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.”
—Paul Horgan (b. 1904)

“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)