Sentence examples for literary needs from inspiring English sources

But it is important to defend both the fictionality of fiction and the "reality hunger" of fiction, and to insist that these are complementary literary needs, not incompatible superfluities.

You can't ask for more than that and God bless Daniel Silva for fulfilling our literary needs.

Such a community center was sorely needed to not only serve the massive Syrians literary needs, he said, but also to build a bridge between Syrians and Turks.

They corresponded until her death, but her difficulty in expressing her literary needs and a reluctance to enter into a cooperative exchange left Higginson nonplussed; he did not press her to publish in subsequent correspondence.

He became part of the Romanian literary world, and developed a peculiarly literary need for the Communist privations that he had loathed before.

In the manner of Don DeLillo in "Libra," his novel about Lee Harvey Oswald, or Joyce Carol Oates in "Black Water," her fictionalization of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick, Choi models the unknowable thoughts and motivations of her characters as literary need dictates.

"We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an added fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled," Updike wrote to his parents in 1951, when he was 19.

The literary novel needs more tinkers and tailors, the argument goes.

The literary establishment needs to not just encourage and promote more writing from working-class writers, young and old, but also move past assumptions that working-class young boys, for example, won't want to write poems.

We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up.' " The literary world needs its outsiders and outlaws, now more than ever, and with Mr. Crews's passing there are very, very few of them left.

The fact is, the literary world needs critics and writers who are connected to the public.