I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.