Noun
imaginative or creative writing
Source: WordNetA literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work. Andrei Tarkovsky
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. Johannes V. Jensen
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. José Saramago
Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational flourishing of tradition, and open the present to a multidimensional temporality. Russell Berman
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. Milan Kundera
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. Yann Martel