Quotes About Literature

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.