The Oxford dictionary of literary quotations

• Other Authors: Kemp, Peter
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 2003; Oxford
• Edition: [2nd ed.]
• Subjects: Quotations, English; Literature > Quotations, maxims, etc; Authors > Quotations
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• Item Description: Includes indexes
• Physical Description: xx, 490 pages 24 cm
• ISBN: 0198662815

This new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner. The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt Lads don't write novels.