Sentence examples for literary quest from inspiring English sources

Tanizaki's work has been characterized as a literary quest for "the eternal female".

At this point in the writing I found, almost without intending it, that I was writing a literary spy and quest novel, heavily influenced by both the Byzantine quality of Jerusalem and the sense that the follies and ancient longings and intrigues that have haunted Jerusalem – the preoccupations which nearly destroyed Richard the Lionheart – are as persistent as ever.

It was a quest simultaneously literary, ethnographic and action-packed.

Gilbert sees the quest for literary status as a narcissistic trap.

Like his novel's heroine he refused to give up as he pursued his own Ahab-like quest for literary glory.

And it wasn't until I got to the end that I realised that - in the process of my Quest for Literary Glory - I had killed it.

Readers always want more: we flood to book signings and fill tents at literary festivals in a quest to see if the writer in the flesh matches the voice we hear in our head when we read.

These waspish pleasantries aside, Kent ultimately gives a commendably fair-minded account of the ideological division between his vision of rock journalism as "fundamentally an action-driven medium" and Marcus's "harvesting of cultural obsessions in a quest for literary epiphanies".

Jennifer Weiner's quest for literary respect Rebecca Mead | New Yorker | 13 January 2014 Smart, popular author says there is no shame in giving readers what they want.

To buy them, and even to read them, is less a quest for a literary experience than it is a form of endorsement and affirmation.

Their quest is full of literary names and theological clues that make the Little Fool feel "the way he'd felt doing jigsaw puzzles with his mom.