Quotes About Literature

I love Martin Amis.

I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

I loved 'A Lion in the Meadow' by Margaret Mahy.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for experiences over just retail.

I hate reading reviews.

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

I often don't read reviews.

I don't read reviews.

My favourite emails are along the lines of, 'My 14-year-old doesn't read much, but I gave him your book and he finished it in two days.' This has been the most rewarding experience.

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I liked 'The Sun Also Rises.'

A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.