Literal Quotes

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

Quite literally she had time on hand, while staring at the lines in her skin. – Sketches of a maze.

I enjoy every climb – maybe it’s because it’s a literal dance between life and death.

I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.

I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.