Literary

Famous quotes containing the word literary:

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

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)