Sentence examples for looking for literary from inspiring English sources

Once his thriller was almost complete, he went looking for literary agents.

"For me, the title could be 'Publishers in the Hands of an Angry God.' " In 1995, Mr. Healy moved the shop to York Avenue, and the clientele changed from commuters bound for Grand Central Terminal to locals looking for literary fiction, holiday cards — or a chat about life and faith.

For a while the novel "looks as if it might resemble an extended prose version of Sid the Sexist from Viz comic" yet "Terry is extremely good company: … funny, often quite kind and with a genuine, if highly individual, sense of morality … Readers looking for literary decorum or flawlessness should definitely look elsewhere.

I have a personal, probably naïve investment in the idea that a writer can maintain her distance from these poles -- if poles they are -- and still find the kind of success she's looking for, literary or commercial.

Basically, we're looking for the literary equivalent of the hit summer song everyone is humming.

"I'm looking for a literary agent, can you help?" asks Alex, snatching the words from my mouth.

Pereira admires Hendricks's study of madness and therapy, and he is looking for a literary executor for his own work.

If you're looking for a literary menu to counteract the frivolity and excess of the festive season, here are four bite-size suggestions for the discerning Boxing Day reader.

He knots and unknots stories as easily as can be, and if you went looking for the literary sources of the Berrybender narratives you'd find them not only in the western potboilers of an earlier era but in the yarning that one imagines took place at a rendezvous of trappers and mountain men.

When he started looking for a literary agent two years ago, he says he found 14 who were willing to represent him.

(The S & M aspect does seem to match the current Zeitgeist, what with books like Fifty Shades of Gray flying off the shelves to panting women looking for some literary "strange"... chicken or egg, I wonder?).